Progress in Galois Theory Proceedings of John Thompson’s 70th Birthday Conference /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Voelklein, Helmut (Editor), Shaska, Tanush (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Developments in Mathematics, 12
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebra.; Algebraic geometry.; Group theory.; Group Theory and Generalizations.; Algebraic Geometry.

A recent trend in the field of Galois theory is to tie the previous theory of curve coverings (mostly of the Riemann sphere) and Hurwitz spaces (moduli spaces for such covers) with the theory of algebraic curves and their moduli spaces. A general survey of this is given in the article by Voelklein....

Table of Contents:

• Supplementary Thoughts on Symplectic Groups
• Automorphisms of the Modular Curve
• Reducing the Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture to Group Theory
• Relating Two Genus 0 Problems of John Thompson
• Relatively Projective Groups as Absolute Galois Groups
• Invariants of Binary Forms
• Some Classical Views on the Parameters of the Grothendieck-Teichmüller Group
• The Image of a Hurwitz Space Under the Moduli Map
• Very Simple Representations: Variations on a Theme of Clifford.