{ "id": "1203.4217", "version": "v2", "published": "2012-03-19T19:52:00.000Z", "updated": "2013-11-25T08:01:59.000Z", "title": "Hilbertian fields and Galois representations", "authors": [ "Lior Bary-Soroker", "Arno Fehm", "Gabor Wiese" ], "comment": "18 pages, accepted for publication in Journal f\\\"ur die reine und angewandte Mathematik", "categories": [ "math.NT", "math.GR" ], "abstract": "We prove a new Hilbertianity criterion for fields in towers whose steps are Galois with Galois group either abelian or a product of finite simple groups. We then apply this criterion to fields arising from Galois representations. In particular we settle a conjecture of Jarden on abelian varieties.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2013-11-25T08:01:59.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "12E25", "12E30", "20E18", "20E22", "11F80", "14H52", "11G10" ], "keywords": [ "galois representations", "hilbertian fields", "finite simple groups", "hilbertianity criterion", "galois group" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 18, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1203.4217B" } } }