Jay Kopper : The Inverse Galois Problem and Resolvent Polynomials

Posted by Dylon Chow , part of the Graduate Number Theory Seminar.

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April 29, 2015, 3 p.m.

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SEO 512

Abstract

Noether proposed attacking the inverse Galois problem by studying elementary symmetric polynomials and their specializations to number fields. This has led to some modern developments in algebraic number theory as well as an algorithm for computing Galois groups over Q.