THE p-ZASSENHAUS FILTRATION OF A FREE PROFINITE GROUP AND SHUFFLE RELATIONS

For a prime number p and a free profinite group S on the basis X, let $S_{\left (n,p\right )}$ , $n=1,2,\dotsc ,$ be the p-Zassenhaus filtration of S. For $p>n$ , we give a word-combinatorial description of the cohomology group $H^2\left (S/S_{\left (n,p\right )},\mathbb {Z}/p\right )$ in terms of the shuffle algebra on X. We give a natural linear basis for this cohomology group, which is constructed by means of unitriangular representations arising from Lyndon words.

DECIDABLE ALGEBRAIC FIELDS

We discuss the connection between decidability of a theory of a large algebraic extensions of ${\Bbb Q}$ and the recursiveness of the field as a subset of a fixed algebraic closure. In particular, we prove that if an algebraic extension K of ${\Bbb Q}$ has a decidable existential theory, then within any fixed algebraic closure $\widetilde{\Bbb Q}$ of ${\Bbb Q}$, the field K must be conjugate over ${\Bbb Q}$ to a field which is recursive as a subset of the algebraic closure. We also show that for each positive integer e there are infinitely many e-tuples $\sigma \in {\text{Gal}}\left( {\Bbb Q} \right)^e $ such that the field $\widetilde{\Bbb Q}\left( \sigma \right)$ is primitive recursive in $\widetilde{\Bbb Q}$ and its elementary theory is primitive recursively decidable. Moreover, $\widetilde{\Bbb Q}\left( \sigma \right)$ is PAC and ${\text{Gal}}\left( {\widetilde{\Bbb Q}\left( \sigma \right)} \right)$ is isomorphic to the free profinite group on e generators.

The elementary theory of free pseudo p-adically closed fields of finite corank

Let be p-adic closures of a countable Hilbertian field K. The main result of [EJ] asserts that the field has the following properties for almost all σ1,…,σe + m ϵ G(K) (in the sense of the unique Haar measure on G(K)e+m):(a) Kσ is pseudo p-adically closed (abbreviation: PpC), i.e., each nonempty absolutely irreducible variety defined over Kσ has a Kσ-rational point, provided that it has a simple rational point in each p-adic closure of Kσ.(b) G(Kσ) ≅ De,m, where De,m is the free profinite product of e copies Γ1,…, Γe of G(ℚp) and a free profinite group of rank m.(c) Kσ has exactly e nonequivalent p-adic valuation rings. They are the restrictions Oσ1,…, Oσe of the unique p-adic valuation rings on , respectively.In this paper we show that this result is in a certain sense the best possible. More precisely, we first show that the class of fields which satisfy (a)–(c) above is elementary in the appropriate language e(K), which is the ordinary first-order language of rings augmented by constant symbols for the elements of K and by e new unary relation symbols (interpreted as e p-adic valuation rings).

Subgroups of free pro-p-products

If F is a free profinite group, it is well known that the closed subgroups of F need not be free profinite; however, if p is a prime number, every closed subgroup of a free pro-p-group is free pio-p (cf. [2, 8, 7]). In this paper we show that there is an analogous contrast regarding the closed subgroups of free products in the category of profinite groups, and the closed subgroups of free products in the category of pro-p-groups, at least for (topologically) finitely generated subgroups.

Decidable regularly closed fields of algebraic numbers

A field K is regularly closed if every absolutely irreducible affine variety defined over K has K-rational points. This notion was first isolated by Ax [A] in his work on the elementary theory of finite fields. Later Jarden [J2] and Jarden and Kiehne [JK] extended this in different directions. One of the primary results in this area is that the elementary properties of a regularly closed field K with a free Galois group (on either finitely or countably many generators) are determined by the set of integer polynomials in one indeterminate with a zero in K. The method of proof employed in [J1], [J2] and [JK] is unusual for algebra since it is a measure-theoretic argument. In this brief summary we have not made any attempt at completeness. We refer the reader to the recent paper of Cherlin, van den Dries, and Macintyre [CDM] and to the forthcoming book by Fried and Jarden [FJ] for a more thorough discussion of the latest results. We would like to thank Moshe Jarden, Angus Macintyre, and Zoe Chatzidakis for their comments on an earlier version of this paper.A countable field K is ω-free if the absolute Galois group , where is the algebraic closure of K and is the free profinite group on ℵ0 generators.

Maximal abelian subgroups of free profinite groups

The aim of this note is to answer in the negative a question of W. -D. Geyer, asked at the 1983 Group Theory Meeting in Oberwolfach: Is a maximal abelian subgroup A of a free profinite group F necessarily isomorphic to , the profinite completion of

The Absolute Galois Group of a Rational Function Field in Characteristic Zero is a Semi-Direct Product

Let K be a field of characteristic 0 and t an indeterminate. It is shown that the absolute Galois group of K(t) is the semi-direct product of a free profinite group with the absolute Galois group of K.