p-Groups have unbounded realization multiplicity

Abstract

In this paper we interpret the solutions to a particular Galois embedding problem over an extension K/F whose Galois group is a finite, cyclic p group in terms of certain Galois submodules within the parameterizing space of elementary p-abelian extensions of K; here p is a prime. Combined with some basic facts about the module structure of this parameterizing space, this allows us to exhibit a class of p-groups whose realization multiplicity is unbounded.