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Geometric Galois Actions The Inverse Galois Problem, Moduli Spaces and Mapping Class Groups

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ISBN-10: 0521596416

ISBN-13: 9780521596411

Edition: 1997

Authors: Leila Schneps, Pierre Lochak, N. J. Hitchin

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Arising from a conference on the theme of 'Geometry and Arithmetic of Moduli Spaces', this book surveys progress in the domains describes in the hitherto unpublished Sketch of a Program by Alexander Grothendieck.
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List price: $103.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/7/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

List of participants
Abstracts of the talks
Introduction
Abstracts
Dessins d'enfants
Unicellular cartography and Galois orbits of plane trees
Galois groups, monodromy groups and cartographical groups
Drawings, triangle groups and algebraic curves
Permutation techniques for coset representations of modular subgroups
On groups acting on dessin-labeled objects
Dessins d'enfants en genre 1
Inverse Galois Problem
The regular inverse Galois problem over large fields
The symplectic braid group and Galois realizations
Obstructed components of A5 modular towers
Galois Actions And Mapping Class Groups
Monodromy of iterated integrals (non-Abelian unipotent periods)
Deformation of singularities and mapping class groups
Universal Teichmnller Theory
The universal Ptolemy group and its completions
Sur l'isomorphisme du groupe de Richard Thompson avec le groupe de PtolTmTe
The universal Ptolemy-Teichmuller groupoid