In the study of Galois theory, after computing a few Galois groups of a given field, it is very natural to ask the question of whether or not every finite group can appear as a Galois group for that particular field. This question was first studied in depth by David Hilbert, and since then it has become known as the Inverse Galois Problem. It is usually posed as which groups appear as Galois ex...

We describe some of the basic ideas of Galois theory for commutative S-algebras originally formulated by John Rognes. We restrict attention to the case of finite Galois groups. We describe the general framework developed by Rognes. Central rôles are played by the notion of strong duality and a trace or norm mapping constructed by Greenlees and May in the context of generalized Tate cohomology. ...

The existence of a good theory of Thom isomorphisms in some rational category of mixed Tate motives would permit a nice interpolation between ideas of Kontsevich on deformation quantization, and ideas of Connes and Kreimer on a Galois theory of renormalization, mediated by Deligne’s ideas on motivic Galois groups.