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Galois Seminar

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 4:15pm

Rachel Pries

Colorado State University and Penn

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University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

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We prove results about the inertia groups and genera which occur for wildly ramified alternating group covers of the affine line in characteristic p. In particular, for the alternating group on p+2 letters, we prove Abhyankar's Inertia Conjecture that all possible inertia groups occur for these covers. This is joint work with Irene Bouw and Jeremy Muskat.

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