{"paper":{"title":"Rigid local systems and alternating groups","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["math.GR"],"primary_cat":"math.NT","authors_text":"Nicholas M. Katz, Pham Huu Tiep, Robert M. Guralnick","submitted_at":"2017-10-06T17:20:03Z","abstract_excerpt":"In earlier work, Katz exhibited some very simple one parameter families of exponential sums which gave rigid local systems on the affine line in characteristic p whose geometric (and usually, arithmetic) monodromy groups were SL(2,q), and he exhibited other such very simple families giving SU(3,q). [Here q is a power of the characteristic p with p odd]. In this paper, we exhibit equally simple families whose geometric monodromy groups are the alternating groups Alt(2q). $. We also determine their arithmetic monodromy groups. By Raynaud's solution of the Abhyankar Conjecture, any finite simple "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1710.02505","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}