The local theory of unipotent Kummer maps and refined Selmer schemes

Publication date: 12 September 2019

Abstract: We study the Galois action on paths in the

m a t h b b Q_{e} l l

-pro-unipotent 'etale fundamental groupoid of a hyperbolic curve

X

over a

p

-adic field with

e l l e q p

. We prove an Oda--Tamagawa-type criterion for the existence of a Galois-invariant path in terms of the reduction of

X

, as well as an anabelian reconstruction result determining the stable reduction type of

X

in terms of its fundamental groupoid. We give an explicit combinatorial description of the non-abelian Kummer map of

X

in arbitrary depth, and deduce consequences for the non-abelian Chabauty method for affine hyperbolic curves and for explicit quadratic Chabauty.

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