On Mochizuki's idea of Anabelomorphy and its applications

arXiv2003.01890MaRDI QIDQ6336089FDOQ6336089

Authors: K. Joshi 

Publication date: 3 March 2020

Abstract: Shinichi Mochizuki has introduced many fundamental ideas in his work, amongst one of them is the foundational notion, which I have dubbed anabelomorphy (pronounced as anabel-o-morphy). I coined the term anabelomorphy as a concise way of expressing "Mochizuki's anabelian way of changing ground field, rings etc." The notion of anabelomorphy is firmly grounded in a well-known theorem of Mochizuki which asserts that a $p$-adic field is determined by its absolute Galois group equipped with its (upper numbering) ramification filtration. However as there exist many non-isomorphic $p$-adic fields with topologically isomorphic Galois groups, the ramification filtration itself is fluid i.e. a variable and this variable controls amongst many other things, the additive structure of a $p$-adic local field, and Mochizuki's remarkable suggestion is that this fluidity can and should be exploited in proving theorems in number theory. In this paper I provide a number of results which illustrate the usefulness of Mochizuki's idea. I refer the reader to the Introduction of the paper and the table of contents for the list of all the results proved in this paper.

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