The External Fundamental Group of an Algebraic Number Field

2007/10/24 by T. M. Gendron, Gendron, T. M.
Mathematics · #Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory #History and Theory of Mathematics #Analytic Number Theory Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0710.4514

Abstract

We associate to every algebraic number field a hyperbolic surface lamination and an external fundamental group: the latter a generalization of the fundamental germ that necessarily contains external (not first order definable) elements. The external fundamental group of the rationals is a split extension of the absolute Galois group, that conjecturally contains a subgroup whose abelianization is isomorphic to the idele class group.

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