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Galois embeddings for linear groups

Author(s): Shreeram S. Abhyankar
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 352 (2000), 3881-3912.
MSC (2000): Primary 12F10, 14H30, 20D06, 20E22
Posted: April 18, 2000
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Abstract:

A criterion is given for the solvability of a central Galois embedding problem to go from a projective linear group covering to a vectorial linear group covering.

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Shreeram S. Abhyankar
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
Email: ram@cs.purdue.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-00-02438-7
PII: S 0002-9947(00)02438-7
Received by editor(s): May 5, 1998
Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 15, 1998
Posted: April 18, 2000
Additional Notes: This work was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS 91-01424 and NSA grant MDA 904-97-1-0010.
Copyright of article: Copyright 2000, American Mathematical Society

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