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Geometry and Galois Theory

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At the International Conference on Algebra and Geometry held at the Central University of Hyderabad in December 2001, I gave a survey talk on Nice Equations for Nice Groups. My talk was based on the fourteen lectures, now called sections, which I gave at Ohio-State University in March-April 1995. This material should serve as a good introduction for applying geometric group theory to the calculation of Galois groups. This is the material which I presented at the 60th birthday conference of my good friend José Luis Vicente in Seville in September 2001. It is based on the nine lectures, now called sections, which were given by me at Purdue in Spring 1997. This should provide a good calculational background for the Galois theory of vectorial (= additive) polynomials and their iterates.

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Abhyankar, S.S. (2003). Geometry and Galois Theory. In: Musili, C. (eds) Advances in Algebra and Geometry. Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-93-86279-12-5_9

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