Counting extensions of function fields with bounded discriminant and specified Galois group
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We discuss the enumeration of function fields and number fields by discriminant. We show that Malle’s conjectures agree with heuristics arising naturally from geometric computations on Hurwitz schemes. These heuristics also suggest further questions in the number field setting.
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