The weak Malle conjecture over the rationals

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Let GG be a transitive subgroup of SnS_n. Let Fn(X;G)\mathcal F_n(X;G) be the set of degree-nn number fields KK satisfying

[K:Q]=n,Gal⁡(K^/Q)=G,∣ΔK∣⩽X,[K:\mathbb Q]=n,\qquad \operatorname{Gal}(\hat K/\mathbb Q)=G,\qquad |\Delta_K|\leqslant X,

where K^\hat K is the Galois closure of KK over Q\mathbb Q, and equality of Galois groups is up to conjugacy as permutation groups on the nn embeddings of KK. Write Fn(X;G)=∣Fn(X;G)∣F_n(X;G)=|\mathcal F_n(X;G)|. Define

ind⁡(G)=min⁡{ind⁡(g):1≠g∈G},\operatorname{ind}(G)=\min\{\operatorname{ind}(g):1\ne g\in G\},

where n−ind⁡(g)n-\operatorname{ind}(g) is the number of orbits of gg on {1,2,…,n}\{1,2,\ldots,n\}, and set a(G)=ind⁡(G)−1a(G)=\operatorname{ind}(G)^{-1}. Weak Malle conjecture over the rationals. For every ε>0\varepsilon>0,

Xa(G)≪nFn(X;G)≪n,εXa(G)+ε.X^{a(G)}\ll_n F_n(X;G)\ll_{n,\varepsilon}X^{a(G)+\varepsilon}.

This is a weakened form of Malle's conjecture, stated in response to Klüners's counterexample to the original formulation. The source attributes this version to Alb20; the general conjecture is not presented as resolved here.

References

Primary source

Sam Chow and Rainer Dietmann, “Enumerative Galois theory for number fields”, arXiv:2304.11991 (2026).

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