On the "Section Conjecture" in anabelian geometry

Details On the "Section Conjecture" in anabelian geometry On the "Section Conjecture" in anabelian geometry

2003-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/math/0305226v1

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Algebraic Geometry

21 pages, latex

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Let X be a smooth projective curve of genus >1 over a field K which is finitely generated over the rationals. The section conjecture in Grothendieck's anabelian geometry says that the sections of the canonical projection from the arithmetic fundamental group of X onto the absolute Galois group of K are (up to conjugation) in one-to-one correspondence with K-rational points of X. The birational variant conjectures a similar correspondence where the fundamental group is replaced by the absolute Galois group of the function field K(X). The present paper proves the birational section conjecture for all X when K is replaced e.g. by the field of p-adic numbers. It disproves both conjectures for the field of real or p-adic algebraic numbers. And it gives a purely group theoretic characterization of the sections induced by K-rational points of X in the birational setting over almost arbitrary fields. As a biproduct we obtain Galois theoretic criteria for radical solvability of polynomial equations in more than one variable, and for a field to be PAC, to be large, or to be Hilbertian.

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