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Field of moduli and field of definition of Galois covers

Stefan Wewers

math.AGarXiv:math/0108003

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the cohomological obstruction for the field of moduli of a G-cover to be a field of definition, in the case of local fields and covers with tame admissible reduction. This applies in particular to p-adic fields where p does not divide the order of the group G. We give examples of G-covers with field of moduli p that cannot be defined over p, for all primes p>5.

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