Oort groups and lifting problems

DOI10.1112/S0010437X08003515zbMATH Open1158.12003arXiv0709.0284MaRDI QIDQ3521135FDOQ3521135

David Harbater, Robert Guralnick, Ted Chinburg

Publication date: 27 August 2008

Published in: Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let k be an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic p. We consider which finite groups G have the property that every faithful action of G on a connected smooth projective curve over k lifts to characteristic zero. Oort conjectured that cyclic groups have this property. We show that if a cyclic-by-p group G has this property, then G must be either cyclic or dihedral, with the exception of A_4 in characteristic 2. This proves one direction of a strong form of the Oort Conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0284

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zbMATH Keywords

Galois coverfundamental groupsdiscrete valuation rings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Separable extensions, Galois theory (12F10) Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Valuation rings (13F30) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Galois theory and commutative ring extensions (13B05) Automorphisms of curves (14H37)

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