Efrat's arithmetical Elementary Type Conjecture

Let FF be a field containing a root of unity of order pp and such that GF(p)G_F(p) is finitely generated. A free pro-pp product decomposition is an expression

GF(p)=G1ppGn.G_F(p)=G_1*_p\cdots*_pG_n.

Efrat's arithmetical Elementary Type Conjecture. There is such a decomposition where, for each 1in1\leq i\leq n, one of the following holds: GiZpG_i\cong\mathbb{Z}_p; GiG_i is the decomposition group of some extension v~\tilde v of a valuation vv on FF to F(p)F(p) with nontrivial inertia group; or p=2p=2 and GiZ/2G_i\cong\mathbb{Z}/2. This conjecture is the arithmetical form of the Elementary Type Conjecture, describing finitely generated maximal pro-pp Galois groups through free products of elementary building blocks and valuation-theoretic decomposition groups. Its resolution status is not specified in the supplied text.

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Primary source

Ido Efrat, “The Elementary Type Conjecture for Maximal Pro-p Galois groups”, arXiv:2509.10168 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2203.16232, arXiv:1808.01695.

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