A relative Shafarevich theorem

DOI10.1007/S00209-004-0658-8MaRDI QIDQ706092zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Niels Borne

Publication date 1 February 2005

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0204088

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Modular representations and characters (20C20)

Abstract: Suppose given a Galois etale cover Y -> X of proper non-singular curves over an algebraically closed field k of prime characteristic p. Let H be its Galois group, and G any finite extension of H by a p-group P. We give necessary and sufficient conditions on G to be the Galois group of an etale cover of X dominating Y -> X.

Review text

Let \(X\) be a smooth projective connected curve defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic \(p>0\) and let \(\pi_1(X)\) be its fundamental group. In [Pac. J. Math. 192, 143--158 (2000; Zbl 1068.14504)] the reviewer and \textit{K. Stevenson} considered a finite group \(G\) which is an extension of a group \(H\) of order prime to \(p\) by a \(p\)-group \(P\) and asked when such a group is a finite quotient of \(\pi_1(X)\), or equivalently whether the embedding problem \((\pi_1(X)\twoheadrightarrow H,G\twoheadrightarrow H)\) can be properly solved. The condition for this to happen was expressed in representation theoretic terms by means of the generalized Hasse-Witt invariants [\textit{S. Nakajima}, in: Galois groups and their representations, Proc. Symp. Nagoya 1981, Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 2, 69--88 (1983; Zbl 0529.14016); \textit{H.-G. Rück}, J. Number Theory 22, 177--189 (1986; Zbl 0581.14025)]. In the paper under review the author extends this result excluding the hypothesis on \(H\) to be of order prime to \(p\). He does this by means of modular representation theory.

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