Counterexamples to a conjecture of Lemmermeyer

DOI10.1007/S000130050319zbMATH Open0922.11095arXivmath/9808146OpenAlexW2011031404WikidataQ123321907 ScholiaQ123321907MaRDI QIDQ1291142FDOQ1291142

Authors: Nigel Boston, C. R. Leedham-Green 

Publication date: 4 October 1999

Published in: Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We produce infinitely many finite 2-groups that do not embed with index 2 in any group generated by involutions. This disproves a conjecture of Lemmermeyer and restricts the possible Galois groups of unramified 2-extensions, Galois over the rationals, of quadratic number fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9808146

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zbMATH Keywords

involutionsquadratic number fieldsclass field towers2-groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Class field theory (11R37) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15)

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