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Galois Seminar

Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:15pm

Andrew Obus

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

First of two talks.

A result of S. Beckmann says that for any 3-point G-Galois cover of the Riemann sphere, if a prime p does not divide the order of G, then p is unramified in the field of moduli of the G-cover. We will discuss a more recent result of S. Wewers: if p exactly divides the order of G, then p is at worst tamely ramified in the field of moduli.