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Functoriality and the inverse Galois problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2008

Chandrashekhar Khare
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 155 South 1400 East, Room 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA (email: shekhar@math.utah.edu)Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555, USA (email: larsen@math.indiana.edu)
Michael Larsen
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA (email: savin@math.utah.edu)
Gordan Savin
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 155 South 1400 East, Room 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA (email: shekhar@math.utah.edu)
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Abstract

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We prove that, for any prime ℓ and any even integer n, there are infinitely many exponents k for which $\mathrm {PSp}_n(\mathbb {F}_{\ell ^k})$ appears as a Galois group over $\mathbb {Q}$. This generalizes a result of Wiese from 2006, which inspired this paper.

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Copyright © Foundation Compositio Mathematica 2008