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Galois Seminar

Friday, October 22, 2004 - 3:15pm

Jing Long

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

Second of three talks.

This is the second to three talks on the non-existence of certain Galois extensions of the rational number field Q with prescribed ramification, motivated by Serre's conjecture. This talk will present the paper of Sharon Brueggeman on the non-existence of certain continuous irreducible mod p representations of degree 2 of the absolute Galois group of the rational number field in the case p=5, and will also present a generalization to other primes.