On the Chebotarev invariant of a finite group

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• Gareth Tracey (University of Bath)
• Tuesday 14 January 2020, 11:00-12:00
• Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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GRA - Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives

Given a nite group X, a classical approach to proving that X is the Galois group
of a Galois extension K=Q can be described roughly as follows: (1) prove that Gal(K=Q) is
contained in X by using known properties of the extension (for example, the Galois group of an
irreducible polynomial f(x) 2 Z[x] of degree n embeds into the symmetric group Sym(n)); (2)
try to prove that X = Gal(K=Q) by computing the Frobenius automorphisms modulo successive
primes, which gives conjugacy classes in Gal(K=Q), and hence in X. If these conjugacy classes
can only occur in the case Gal(K=Q) = X, then we are done. The Chebotarev invariant of X
can roughly be described as the eciency of this \algorithm”.
In this talk we will dene the Chebotarev invariant precisely, and describe some new results
concerning its asymptotic behaviour.

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