The section conjecture, in anabelian geometry, gives a conjectural description of the splittings of the fundamental group homomorphism from a complete smooth curve of genus at least two, defined over a number field, to the Galois group of that field, in terms of the decomposition groups of the curve's rational points. It was introduced by Alexander Grothendieck in a 1983 letter to Gerd Faltings.
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StatementFor a complete smooth curve X of genus at least 2 over a finitely generated field k, describes the splittings of the homomorphism from the fundamental group of X to the Galois group of k in terms of decomposition groups of rational points of X. 1 Proposed Year Classification
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1. Section Conjecture (Wikipedia)
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The conjecture was introduced by Alexander Grothendieck (1997) in a 1983 letter to Gerd Faltings.
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the section conjecture gives a conjectural description of the splittings of the group homomorphism
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