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Abhyankar’s conjectures in Galois theory: current status and future directions. (English) Zbl 1432.14029

Summary: In this paper we survey the major contributions of Abhyankar to the development of the theory of fundamental groups and Galois covers in positive characteristic. We first discuss the current status of four conjectures of Abhyankar about Galois covers in positive characteristic. Then we discuss research directions inspired by Abhyankar’s work, including many open problems.

MSC:

14H30 Coverings of curves, fundamental group
11G20 Curves over finite and local fields
14H37 Automorphisms of curves
11-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to number theory
14-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic geometry
12F10 Separable extensions, Galois theory

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