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Actions of the Absolute Galois Group (1603.03387v1)

Published 10 Mar 2016 in math.GT and math.AG

Abstract: We review some ideas of Grothendieck and others on actions of the absolute Galois group {\Gamma} Q of Q (the automorphism group of the tower of finite extensions of Q), related to the geometry and topology of surfaces (mapping class groups, Teichm{\"u}ller spaces and moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces). Grothendieck's motivation came in part from his desire to understand the absolute Galois group. But he was also interested in Thurston's work on surfaces, and he expressed this in his Esquisse d'un programme, his R{\'e}coltes et semailles and on other occasions. He introduced the notions of dessin d'enfant, Teichm{\"u}ller tower, and other related objects, he considered the actions of {\Gamma} Q on them or on their etale fundamental groups, and he made conjectures on some natural homomorphisms between the absolute Galois group and the automor-phism groups (or outer automorphism groups) of these objects. We mention several ramifications of these ideas, due to various authors. We also report on the works of Sullivan and others on nonlinear actions of {\Gamma} Q , in particular in homotopy theory. The final version of this paper will appear as a chapter in Volume VI of the Handbook of Teichm{\"u}ller theory. This volume is dedicated to the memory of Alexander Grothendieck.

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