Boston–Markin conjecture for totally real tamely ramified extensions

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Let GG be a nontrivial finite group. Write d⊲(G)d_\lhd(G) for the least number of conjugacy classes in GG that generate GG. A GG-extension K/QK/\mathbb{Q} is a Galois extension with Galois group identified with GG.

Boston–Markin conjecture. There exists a totally real tamely ramified GG-extension K/QK/\mathbb{Q} such that the number of finite primes of Q\mathbb{Q} ramified in KK is d⊲(G)d_\lhd(G).

The integer d⊲(G)d_\lhd(G) is a lower bound because the cyclic inertia subgroups generate GG. The conjecture is known for abelian GG and remains open for every nonabelian GG.

References

Primary source

Mark Shusterman, “The Tamely Ramified Geometric Quantitative Minimal Ramification Problem”, arXiv:2211.16983 (2022).

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