{ "id": "2312.04430", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-12-07T16:56:16.000Z", "updated": "2023-12-07T16:56:16.000Z", "title": "A Summary of Known Bounds on the Essential Dimension and Resolvent Degree of Finite Groups", "authors": [ "Alexander J. Sutherland" ], "comment": "6 pages. All information up to date as of December 7th, 2023", "categories": [ "math.AG", "math.GR" ], "abstract": "We summarize what is currently known about ed$(G)$ and RD$(G)$ for finite groups $G$ over $\\mathbb{C}$ (i.e. in characteristic 0). In Appendix A, we also give an argument which improves the known bound on RD(PSL$(2,\\mathbb{F}_{11})$).", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-12-07T16:56:16.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14-02", "12-02", "20-02" ], "keywords": [ "finite groups", "essential dimension", "resolvent degree", "characteristic" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 6, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }