Abhyankar's inertia conjecture

Let pp be a prime, let GG be a finite quasi pp-group, and let II be a subgroup of GG that is an extension of a pp-group by a cyclic group of order prime to pp. Call (G,I)(G,I) realizable if there is a connected GG-Galois cover of P1\mathbb{P}^1 branched only at infinity with inertia group II at a point above infinity. For a pp-subgroup PP occurring in II, write PGP^G for its set of conjugates in GG.

Abhyankar's inertia conjecture. The pair (G,I)(G,I) is realizable if and only if

G=PG.G=\langle P^G\rangle.

The condition on II is necessary from the theory of extensions of local fields. The conjecture is known in some cases, including when GG is a pp-group, but its general status remains open.

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Primary source

Soumyadip Das, “Towards the Generalized Purely Wild Inertia Conjecture for product of Alternating and Symmetric Groups”, arXiv:2111.15495 (2022).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2009–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2010.01455, arXiv:2002.04934, arXiv:1711.07756, arXiv:1408.0859, arXiv:0908.2140.

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