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We employ methods from homotopy theory to define new obstructions to solutions of embedding problems. By using these novel obstructions we study embedding problems with non-solvable kernel. We apply these obstructions to study the unramified inverse Galois problem. That is, we show that our methods can be used to determine that certain groups cannot be realized as the Galois groups of unramified extensions of certain number fields. To demonstrate the power of our methods, we give an infinite family of totally imaginary quadratic number fields such that $text{Aut}(text{PSL}(2,q^2))$ for $q$ an odd prime power, cannot be realized as an unramified Galois group over $K,$ but its maximal solvable quotient can. To prove this result, we determine the ring structure of the etale cohomology ring $H^*(text{Spec }mathcal{O}_K;mathbb{Z}/ 2mathbb{Z})$ where $mathcal{O}_K$ is the ring of integers of an arbitrary totally imaginary number field $K.$
A strategy to address the inverse Galois problem over Q consists of exploiting the knowledge of Galois representations attached to certain automorphic forms. More precisely, if such forms are carefully chosen, they provide compatible systems of Galois representations satisfying some desired properties, e.g. properties that reflect on the image of the members of the system. In this article we survey some results obtained using this strategy.
This article is the first part of a series of three articles about compatible systems of symplectic Galois representations and applications to the inverse Galois problem. In this first part, we determine the smallest field over which the projectivisation of a given symplectic group representation satisfying some natural conditions can be defined. The answer only depends on inner twists. We apply this to the residual representations of a compatible system of symplectic Galois representations satisfying some mild hypothesis and obtain precise information on their projective images for almost all members of the system, under the assumption of huge residual images, by which we mean that a symplectic group of full dimension over the prime field is contained up to conjugation. Finally, we obtain an application to the inverse Galois problem.
For each of the groups PSL2(F25), PSL2(F32), PSL2(F49), PGL2(F25), and PGL2(F27), we display the first explicitly known polynomials over Q having that group as Galois group. Each polynomial is related to a Galois representation associated to a modular form. We indicate how computations with modular Galois representations were used to obtain these polynomials. For each polynomial, we also indicate how to use Serres conjectures to determine the modular form giving rise to the related Galois representation.
Let $F$ be a field of characteristic 2 and let $X$ be a smooth projective quadric of dimension $ge 1$ over $F$. We study the unramified cohomology groups with 2-primary torsion coefficients of $X$ in degrees 2 and 3. We determine completely the kernel and the cokernel of the natural map from the cohomology of $F$ to the unramified cohomology of $X$. This extends the results in characteristic different from 2 obtained by Kahn, Rost and Sujatha in the nineteen-nineties.
Let $K$ be a totally real number field of degree $n geq 2$. The inverse different of $K$ gives rise to a lattice in $mathbb{R}^n$. We prove that the space of Schwartz Fourier eigenfunctions on $mathbb{R}^n$ which vanish on the component-wise square root of this lattice, is infinite dimensional. The Fourier non-uniqueness set thus obtained is a discrete subset of the union of all spheres $sqrt{m}S^{n-1}$ for integers $m geq 0$ and, as $m rightarrow infty$, there are $sim c_{K} m^{n-1}$ many points on the $m$-th sphere for some explicit constant $c_{K}$, proportional to the square root of the discriminant of $K$. This contrasts a recent Fourier uniqueness result by Stoller. Using a different construction involving the codifferent of $K$, we prove an analogue of our results for discrete subsets of ellipsoids. In special cases, these sets also lie on spheres with more densely spaced radii, but with fewer points on each. We also study a related question about existence of Fourier interpolation formulas with nodes $sqrt{Lambda}$ for general lattices $Lambda subset mathbb{R}^n$. Using results about lattices in Lie groups of higher rank, we prove that, if $n geq 2$ and if a certain group $Gamma_{Lambda} leq operatorname{PSL}_2(mathbb{R})^n$ is discrete, then such interpolation formulas cannot exist. Motivated by these more general considerations, we revisit the case of one radial variable and prove, for all $n geq 5$ and all real $lambda > 2$, Fourier interpolation results for sequences of spheres $sqrt{2 m/ lambda}S^{n-1}$, where $m$ ranges over any fixed cofinite set of non-negative integers. The proof relies on a series of Poincare type for Hecke groups of infinite covolume, similarly to the construction previously used by Stoller.