Rational connectedness and Galois covers of the projective line
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DOI10.2307/121121zbMATH Open0990.12003arXivmath/0010023OpenAlexW2075184892MaRDI QIDQ1972078FDOQ1972078
Authors: Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène 
Publication date: 14 May 2001
Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Let k be a p-adic field. Some time ago, D. Harbater [9] proved that any finite group G may be realized as a regular Galois group over the rational function field in one variable k(t), namely there exists a finite field extension , Galois with group G, such that F is a regular extension of k (i.e. k is algebraically closed in F). Moreover, one may arrange that a given k-place of k(t) be totally split in F. Harbater proved this theorem for k an arbitrary complete valued field. Rather formal arguments ([10, S 4.5]; S2 hereafter) then imply that the theorem holds over any `large' field k. This in turn is a special case of a result of Pop [15], hence will be referred to as the Harbater/Pop theorem. We refer to [10], [16], [6] for precise references to the literature (work of D`ebes, Deschamps, Fried, Haran, Harbater, Jarden, Liu, Pop, Serre, and V"olklein). Most proofs (see [10], [19, 8.4.4, p.~93] and Liu's contribution to [16]; see however [15]) first use direct arguments to establish the theorem when G is a cyclic group (here the nature of the ground field is irrelevant), then proceed by patching, using either formal or rigid geometry, together with GAGA theorems. In the present paper, where I take the case of algebraically closed fields for granted, I show how a technique recently developed by Koll'ar [12] may be used to give a quite different proof of the Harbater/Pop theorem, when the `large' field k has characteristic zero. This proof actually gives more than the original result (see comment after statement of Theorem 1).
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0010023
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