Boston–Markin conjecture for totally real tamely ramified extensions

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.

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

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