Galois groups over function fields of positive characteristic
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Abstract:
We prove examples motivated by work of Serre and Abhyankar.References
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Additional Information
- John Conway
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Fine Hall, Princeton University, Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1000
- Email: conway@math.princeton.edu
- John McKay
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and CICMA, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard, West, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada
- Email: mac@mathstat.concordia.ca
- Allan Trojan
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
- Email: atrojan@yorku.ca
- Received by editor(s): November 25, 2008
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 27, 2009
- Published electronically: November 20, 2009
- Communicated by: Jonathan I. Hall
- © Copyright 2009
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2010), 1205-1212
- MSC (2000): Primary 11F22, 11F03; Secondary 30F35, 20C34
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-09-10130-2
- MathSciNet review: 2578514