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Deformations of dihedral 2-group extensions of fields
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by Elena V. Black
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 351 (1999), 3229-3241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-99-02135-2
Published electronically: February 10, 1999

Abstract:

Given a $G$-Galois extension of number fields $L/K$ we ask whether it is a specialization of a regular $G$-Galois cover of $\mathbb {P}^{1}_{K}$. This is the “inverse" of the usual use of the Hilbert Irreducibility Theorem in the Inverse Galois problem. We show that for many groups such arithmetic liftings exist by observing that the existence of generic extensions implies the arithmetic lifting property. We explicitly construct generic extensions for dihedral $2$-groups under certain assumptions on the base field $k$. We also show that dihedral groups of order $8$ and $16$ have generic extensions over any base field $k$ with characteristic different from $2$.
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Bibliographic Information
  • Elena V. Black
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6395
  • Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, 601 Elm Avenue, Room 423, Norman, Oklahoma 73019
  • Email: eblack@math.ou.edu
  • Received by editor(s): May 15, 1996
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 18, 1996, and April 18, 1997
  • Published electronically: February 10, 1999
  • © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 351 (1999), 3229-3241
  • MSC (1991): Primary 11R32, 11R58, 14E20, 14D10; Secondary 12F12, 12F10, 13B05
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-99-02135-2
  • MathSciNet review: 1467461