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Galois Seminar

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 3:15pm

Armin Holschbach

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

According to a "folklore" result proposed by Serre, a finite extension of number fields L/K is Galois iff almost all totally split primes of L lie in totally split fibres. This talk will present a proof of this result, which is related to Tschebotarev density. A generalization to schemes of finite type over Z will then be presented. (This talk is based on the speaker's diploma thesis.)