Semiabelian group

Not to be confused with semiabelian scheme.

Semiabelian groups is a class of groups first introduced by Thompson (1984) and named by Matzat (1987). It appears in Galois theory, in the study of the inverse Galois problem or the embedding problem which is a generalization of the former.

Definition

Definition: A finite group G is called semiabelian if and only if there exists a sequence

$G_{0}=\{1\},G_{1},\dots ,G_{n}=G$

such that $G_{i}$ is a homomorphic image of a semidirect product $A_{i}\rtimes G_{i-1}$ with a finite abelian group $A_{i}$ ($i=1,\dots ,n$.).

The family ${\mathcal {S}}$ of finite semiabelian groups is the minimal family which contains the trivial group and is closed under the following operations:

• If $G\in {\mathcal {S}}$ acts on a finite abelian group $A$, then $A\rtimes G\in {\mathcal {S}}$;
• If $G\in {\mathcal {S}}$ and $N\triangleleft G$ is a normal subgroup, then $G/N\in {\mathcal {S}}$.
  

The class of finite groups G with a regular realizations over $\mathbb {Q}$ is closed under taking semidirect products with abelian kernels, and it is also closed under quotients. The class ${\mathcal {S}}$ is the smallest class of finite groups that have both of these closure properties as mentioned above.

Example

• Abelian groups, dihedral groups, and all p-groups of order less than $64$ are semiabelian.
• The following are equivalent for a non-trivial finite group G (Dentzer 1995, Theorm 2.3.) :

  (i) G is semiabelian.

  (ii) G possess an abelian $A\triangleleft G$ and a some proper semiabelian subgroup U with $G=AU$.

Therefore G is an epimorphism of a split group extension with abelian kernel.

• Finite semiabelian groups possess G-realizations over function fields $k(t)$ in one variable for any field $k$ and therefore are Galois groups over every Hilbertian field.

See also

• Inverse Galois problem
• Embedding problem
• Galois extension

References

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Further reading

• Matzat, B. Heinrich (1991). "Der Kenntnisstand in der konstruktiven Galoisschen Theorie". Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Finite-Dimensional Algebras (in German). pp. 65–98. doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-8658-1_4. ISBN 978-3-0348-9720-4.
• Saltman, David J. (1982). "Generic Galois extensions and problems in field theory". Advances in Mathematics. 43 (3): 250–283. doi:10.1016/0001-8708(82)90036-6.

External links

• "Inverse Galois Problem (Lecture 3) in PCMI 2021 Graduate Summer School Program - Number Theory Informed by Computation - July 26-30, 2021". Archived from the original on 2023-02-16.