Geometric Galois Actions: The Grothendieck-Teichmüller group GT : a survey
Geometric Galois Actions: The Grothendieck-Teichmüller group GT : a survey
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几何伽罗瓦动作:Grothendieck-Teichmüller 群 GT:一项调查
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10.1017/cbo9780511758874.014
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1997
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Leila Schneps
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作者:
Leila Schneps
In this short survey, we recall the definition of the profinite version of the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group ĜT . The Grothendieck-Teichmüller group was originally defined by Drinfel’d in [D] (as it happens, not in the profinite case, but in the discrete, pro-` and k-pro-unipotent cases; these definition are all analogous). We state most of the results on the profinite version ĜT known to date, and give references to all the proofs. (It should be noted that there are several deep results and conjectures concerning only the pro` version of the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group; we do not discuss them here.) One of the most interesting aspects of ĜT is the fact that it contains the absolute Galois group Gal(Q/Q) as a subgroup in a way compatible with natural actions of both groups on arithmetico-geometric objects such as certain covers defined over Q and fundamental groups of varieties defined over Q; the possibility that these two groups are actually isomorphic is an exciting one, suggesting a new way of considering Gal(Q/Q). It reflects Grothendieck’s suggestion in the Esquisse d’un Programme of studying the combinatorial properties of the absolute Galois group Gal(Q/Q) by studying its natural action on what he calls the Teichmüller tower, described as follows: