Galois embeddings for linear groups
Author:
Shreeram S. Abhyankar
Journal:
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 352 (2000), 3881-3912
MSC (2000):
Primary 12F10, 14H30, 20D06, 20E22
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-00-02438-7
Published electronically:
April 18, 2000
MathSciNet review:
1650057
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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
Received by editor(s):
May 5, 1998
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
September 15, 1998
Published electronically:
April 18, 2000
Additional Notes:
This work was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS 91-01424 and NSA grant MDA 904-97-1-0010.
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