Boston's virtually Golod–Shafarevich conjecture

Let pp be a prime, let KK be a number field, and let L/KL/K be an infinite pro-pp extension ramified at finitely many primes, none above pp. For a pro-pp group GG, let d(G)d(G) and r(G)r(G) denote its generator rank and relation rank.

Boston's virtually Golod–Shafarevich conjecture. The group Gal(L/K)\operatorname{Gal}(L/K) contains an open pro-pp subgroup GG such that d(G)d(G) and r(G)r(G) are finite and

r(G)d(G)2/4.r(G)\leq d(G)^2/4.

This conjecture asks whether every infinite pro-pp extension of the indicated arithmetic type arises from a Golod–Shafarevich construction. The source attributes it to Boston and leaves it open.

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Primary source

Yufan Luo, “Remarks on the Boston Unramified Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture, II”, arXiv:2601.20395 (2026).

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