Boston University Algebra Seminar

Boston University Algebra Seminar -- Fall 2005


Groups of order 4p, twisted wreath products and Hopf-Galois theory


Tim Kohl
Boston University


Monday, October 17th at 4:15pm
111 Cummington Street, MCS B33


Abstract

The work of Greither and Pareigis details the enumeration of the Hopf-Galois structures (if any) on a given separable field extension. We consider the cases where L/K is already classically Galois with Γ=Gal(L/K), where |Γ|=4p for p>3 a prime. The goal is to determine those regular (i.e. transitive and fixed point free) subgroups 'N' of Perm(Γ) that are normalized by the left regular representation of Γ. A key fact that aids in this search is the observation that any such regular subgroup, necessarily of order 4p, has a unique subgroup of order p. This allows us to show that all such N are contained in a 'twisted' wreath product, a subgroup of high index in Perm(Γ) which has a very computationally convenient description that allows us to perform the aforementioned enumeration.