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Galois Seminar

Friday, September 21, 2018 - 3:15pm

Renee Bell

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

4N30

Given a Galois cover of curves X to Y with Galois group G which is totally ramified at a point x and unramified elsewhere, restriction to the punctured formal neighborhood of x induces a Galois extension of Laurent series rings k((u))/k((t)). If we fix a base curve Y, we can ask when a Galois extension of Laurent series rings comes from a global cover of Y in this way. Harbater proved that over a separably closed field, every Laurent series extension comes from a global cover for any base curve if G is a p-group, and he gave a condition for the uniqueness of such an extension. Using a generalization of Artin-Schreier theory to non-abelian $p$-groups, we characterize the curves Y for which this extension property holds and for which it is unique up to isomorphism, but over a more general ground field.