Realization of Nilpotent Groups with Restricted Ramification over Number Fields

Speaker: Dr Nadya Markin (Claude Shannon Institute, UCD)

Time: 5:00PM
Date: Wed 28th February 2007

Location: Mathematical Sciences Seminar Room

Abstract
For a fixed number field K and a finite group G, let RamK(G) be the minimum number of primes ramified in L, as L runs over extensions of K with Galois group G. We obtain an upper bound for RamK(G) in case when G is a nilpotent group.

(This talk is part of the K-Theory, Quadratic Forms and Number Theory series.)