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Inverse Galois Problems II

David Zywina was in town today to talk about a follow up to his previous results mentioned previously on this blog. This time, he talked about his construction of Galois groups which were simple of orthogonal type, in particular, the … Continue reading

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Inverse Galois Problem

My favourite group as far as the inverse Galois problem goes is \(G = \mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbf{F}_p)\). This is not known to be a Galois group over \(\mathbf{Q}\) for any \(p > 13\), the difficulty of course being that is must correspond … Continue reading

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