My field of research is in the area known as Hopf-Galois Theory which is a generalization of the classical Galois theory for fields.

In this setting one can consider a separable extension (which may not be Galois in the usual sense) as being Hopf-Galois where instead of a group acting on the extension, one has a Hopf algebra which acts. Note that a classical Galois extension L/K with G=Gal(L/K) is also Hopf-Galois in a very natural way under the action of the Hopf algebra H=K[G].

The work of Greither and Pareigis showed how to classify and enumerate such extensions by looking at certain permutation groups.

In broad terms Hopf-Galois theory can be viewed as an aspect of Galois Module Theory.

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