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We show that if a finite group G is the Galois group of a Galois cover of \({\mathbb{P}^1}\) over \({\mathbb{Q}}\) , then the orders p n of the abelianization of its p-Sylow subgroups are bounded in terms of their index m, of the branch point number r and the smallest prime \({\ell \hskip -2pt \not | \hskip 2pt |{G}|}\) of good reduction of the branch divisor. This is a new constraint for the regular inverse Galois problem: if p n is suitably large compared to r and m, the branch points must coalesce modulo small primes. We further conjecture that p n should be bounded only in terms of r and m. We use a connection with some rationality question on the torsion of abelian varieties. For example, our conjecture follows from the so-called torsion conjectures. Our approach also provides a new viewpoint on Fried’s Modular Tower program and a weak form of its main conjecture.
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Cadoret, A., Dèbes, P. Abelian constraints in inverse Galois theory. manuscripta math. 128, 329–341 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-008-0236-1
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