The kernel generating condition and absolute Galois groups

Abstract: For a list

c a l L

of finite groups and for a profinite group

G

, we consider the intersection

T (G)

of all open normal subgroups

N

of

G

with

G / N

in

c a l L

. We give a cohomological characterization of the epimorphisms

p i c o l o n S o G

of profinite groups (satisfying some additional requirements) such that

p i [T (S)] = T (G)

. For

p

prime, this is used to describe cohomologically the profinite groups

G

whose

n

th term

G_{(n, p)}

(resp.,

G^{(n, p)}

) in the

p

-Zassenhaus filtration (resp., lower

p

-central filtration) is an intersection of this form. When

G = G_{F}

is the absolute Galois group of a field

F

containing a root of unity of order

p

, we recover as special cases results by Minac, Spira and the author, describing

G_{(3, p)}

and

G^{(3, p)}

as

T (G)

for appropriate lists

c a l L

.

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