Elementary Type Conjecture in Lego form

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A cyclotomic pro-pp pair is a pro-pp group equipped with its cyclotomic character; a pair is of Galois type when it arises from a maximal pro-pp Galois group, and finite rank means that its first cohomology has finite \a0Fp\a0\mathbb{F}_p-dimension. Let ETp\operatorname{ET}_p be the minimal class of cyclotomic pro-pp pairs, up to isomorphism, containing the trivial pair (1,1)(1,1), the pairs Zα\mathcal{Z}^{\alpha} for αZp×,1\alpha\in\mathbb{Z}_p^{\times,1}, E\mathcal{E} when p=2p=2, and the cyclotomic pro-pp pairs of pp-adic type, and closed under extensions GˉZpGˉ\bar{\mathcal{G}}\mapsto\mathbb{Z}_p\rtimes\bar{\mathcal{G}} and free products.

Elementary Type Conjecture in Lego form. Every cyclotomic pro-pp pair of Galois type and of finite rank is in ETp\operatorname{ET}_p.

This formulation says that finite-rank maximal pro-pp Galois groups can be assembled from the listed elementary building blocks using extensions and free products. The supplied text does not specify whether the conjecture has been resolved.

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Primary source

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

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