"Sylow-p Subgroups of Absolute Galois Groups, their Natural Quotients, and Galois Cohomology"

大约200年前，E。伽罗瓦发现了一个绝妙的想法，将对称性作为一个对象来研究，并以这种方式解决与给定数学结构相关的基本和看似棘手的问题。今天伽罗瓦理论是当前数学的核心部分。然而，伽罗瓦理论中的一些基本问题仍然是开放的。有如此多的对称群，以至于人们渴望建造巨大的观测塔，从那里人们可以看到所有这些对称群。这些塔被称为绝对伽罗瓦群。如果你知道了绝对伽罗瓦群的一些特殊性质，你将获得一把打开当今数学许多密室的万能钥匙。在过去的30年里，A. Merkurjev，M. Rost，A. Suslin和V. Voevodsky，在绝对伽罗瓦群的上同调不变量方面获得非常具体的信息。因此，我们现在有了关于绝对伽罗瓦群的强有力的信息，但它是用上同调语言编码的。这项研究的主要目标是将一些强大的信息解码成绝对伽罗瓦群的实际描述。在最近与D. Benson，S.切博卢岛Efrat，J. Labute，N. Lemire和J. Swallow;我们已经找到了绝对伽罗瓦群的某些和各种小的子群。 这些群可以被看作是我们的塔的基础，现在是时候爬得更高，并对更大的伽罗瓦群进行分类了。基于与M. Spira和最近与A. Adem，D.本森岛Efrat，N. Lemire，A. Schultz和J. Swallow，关于拓扑学、模表示理论和伽罗瓦上同调的伽罗瓦模结构之间的相互作用，我们计划提供关于绝对伽罗瓦群的进一步重要信息，并将其应用于纯数学中基本问题的解决。加拿大的数论和相关主题在国际上受到好评。希望这个项目将有助于保持加拿大的高标准和传统。

Almost 200 years ago E. Galois discovered a brilliant idea to study symmetries as one object, and in this way, to solve fundamental and seemingly intractible problems related to given mathematical structures. Today Galois theory is a central part of current mathematics. However some basic problems in Galois theory are still open. There are so many groups of symmetries that there became a desire to build enormous observing towers from which one could see all of these groups of symmetries. These towers are called absolute Galois groups. If one knew some special properties of absolute Galois groups, one would obtain a master key to many secret rooms of current mathematics. Remarkable progress was completed during the last 30 years by A. Merkurjev, M. Rost, A. Suslin, and V. Voevodsky, on obtaining very specific information in terms of cohomological invariants of absolute Galois groups. Thus we now have powerful information about absolute Galois groups, but it is encoded in the language of cohomology. The main objective of this proposed research is to decode some of the powerful information into down-to-earth descriptions of absolute Galois groups. In recent joint work with D. Benson, S. Chebolu, I. Efrat, J. Labute, N. Lemire and J. Swallow; we have found certain and various small quotients of absolute Galois groups. These groups can be viewed as foundations of our towers and now it is time to climb higher and to classify larger quotients of Galois groups. Based on joint work with M. Spira, and more recent work with A. Adem, D. Benson, I. Efrat, N. Lemire, A. Schultz and J. Swallow, on the interplay between topology, modular representation theory and the Galois module structure of Galois cohomology, we plan to provide further significant information about absolute Galois groups, and to apply it to the solution of basic problems in pure mathematics. Number theory and related topics in Canada are internationally well regarded. It is hoped that this project will contribute to sustaining this high standard and tradition in Canada.