Extensions of totally projective groups

On Extensions of Primary Almost Totally Projective Abelian Groups

Suppose G is a subgroup of the reduced abelian p-group A. The following two dual results are proved: (∗) If A/G is countable and G is an almost totally projective group, then A is an almost totally projective group. (∗∗) If G is countable and nice in A such that A/G is an almost totally projective group, then A is an almost totally projective group. These results somewhat strengthen theorems du...

Generic Central Extensions and Projective Representations of Finite Groups

Any free presentation for the finite group G determines a central extension (R, F ) for G having the projective lifting property for G over any field k. The irreducible representations of F which arise as lifts of irreducible projective representations of G are investigated by considering the structure of the group algebra kF , which is greatly influenced by the fact that the set of torsion ele...

Extensions of totally bounded pseudometrics

Projective extensions of fields

A field K admits proper projective extensions, i.e. Galois extensions where the Galois group is a nontrivial projective group, unless K is separably closed or K is a pythagorean formally real field without cyclic extensions of odd degree. As a consequence, it turns out that almost all absolute Galois groups decompose as proper semidirect products. We show that each local field has a unique maxi...

Totally reflexive extensions and modules

Article history: Received 23 August 2012 Available online xxxx Communicated by Luchezar L. Avramov MSC: 16G50 13B02 16E65