Embedding problems and open subgroups

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2010-10776-1MaRDI QIDQ2997172zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David Harbater, Katherine F. Stevenson

Publication date 6 May 2011

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1164

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic \(p\)fundamental groupembedding problemaffine curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Field arithmetic (12E30) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Positive characteristic ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G17) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Universal profinite groups (relationship to moduli spaces, projective and moduli towers, Galois theory) (14G32)

Abstract: We study the properties of the fundamental group of an affine curve over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p$, from the point of view of embedding problems. In characteristic zero, the fundamental group is free, but in characteristic $p$ it is not even $omega$-free. In this paper we show that it is "almost $omega$-free," in the sense that each finite embedding problem has a proper solution when restricted to some open subgroup. We also prove that embedding problems can always be properly solved over the given curve if suitably many additional branch points are allowed, in locations that can be specified arbitrarily; this strengthens a result of the first author.

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