Wood's conjecture on unramified extensions of quadratic fields

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Let G′G' be a finite group and GG a subgroup. Write E±(G′,G)\mathbf{E}^{\pm}(G',G) for the average number of unramified extensions L/KL/K of quadratic fields KK, unramified at finite primes, such that Gal⁡(L/K)=G\operatorname{Gal}(L/K)=G and Gal⁡(L/Q)=G′\operatorname{Gal}(L/\mathbb{Q})=G'. Let cc be a conjugacy class of elements of order 22 in G′G', and let H2(G′,c)H_{2}(G',c) and Aut⁡G′(G)\operatorname{Aut}_{G'}(G) denote the corresponding reduced Schur multiplier and group of G′G'-equivariant automorphisms. The parameter uu is 00 in the imaginary case and 11 in the real case.

Wood's conjecture. If there is a unique conjugacy class cc of order 22 elements of G′G' not contained in GG, then

E±(G′,G)=∣H2(G′,c)[2]∣∣c∣u∣Aut⁡G′(G)∣.\mathbf{E}^{\pm}(G',G)=\frac{\left|H_{2}(G',c)[2]\right|}{\left|c\right|^{u}\left|\operatorname{Aut}_{G'}(G)\right|}.

Otherwise,

E±(G′,G)=∞.\mathbf{E}^{\pm}(G',G)=\infty.

This conjecture generalizes the Cohen–Lenstra question from abelian class groups to non-abelian unramified extensions; Wood proved supporting results over function fields, while the stated number-field distribution remains open.

References

Primary source

Brandon Alberts and Jack Klys, “The distribution of H_8-extensions of quadratic fields”, arXiv:1611.05595 (2017).

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