Galois realizations with inertia groups of order two

Abstract

There are several variants of the inverse Galois problem which involve restrictions on ramification. In this paper we give sufficient conditions that a given finite group $G$ occurs infinitely often as a Galois group over the rationals $\mathbb Q$ with all nontrivial inertia groups of order $2$. Notably any such realization of $G$ can be translated up to a quadratic field over which the corresponding realization of $G$ is unramified. The sufficient conditions are imposed on a parametric polynomial with Galois group $G$--if such a polynomial is available--and the infinitely many realizations come from infinitely many specializations of the parameter in the polynomial. This will be applied to the three finite simple groups $A_5$, $PSL_2(7)$ and $PSL_3(3)$. Finally, the applications to $A_5$ and $PSL_3(3)$ are used to prove the existence of infinitely many optimally intersective realizations of these groups over the rational numbers (proved earlier for $PSL_2(7)$ by the first author).