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).