Orbits of automorphism groups of fields

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2005.07.026zbMATH Open1132.12002arXivmath/0407473OpenAlexW2145785077MaRDI QIDQ2575688FDOQ2575688

Bjorn Poonen, Kiran S. Kedlaya

Publication date: 6 December 2005

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We address several specific aspects of the following general question: can a field K have so many automorphisms that the action of the automorphism group on the elements of K has relatively few orbits? We prove that any field which has only finitely many orbits under its automorphism group is finite. We extend the techniques of that proof to approach a broader conjecture, which asks whether the automorphism group of one field over a subfield can have only finitely many orbits on the complement of the subfield. Finally, we apply similar methods to analyze the field of Mal'cev-Neumann "generalized power series" over a base field; these form near-counterexamples to our conjecture when the base field has characteristic zero, but often fall surprisingly far short in positive characteristic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407473

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite fields (field-theoretic aspects) (12E20)

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