Inverse Galois problem
Known for solvable groups (Shafarevich) and for all but one of the sporadic groups; the Mathieu group M23 is the famous holdout. Most methods use rigidity, building extensions from the geometry of covering spaces.
Posed 19th century; systematic work from Hilbert and Emmy Noether.
What would settle it
Lean statement in formal-conjectures
Sources
Relations to this page
- related to Solving the quintic by radicals refuted · V3
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