Bloch-Kato pro-p groups and locally powerful groups

Abstract

A Bloch-Kato pro-p group G is a pro-p group with the property that the F_p-cohomology ring of every closed subgroup of G is quadratic. It is shown that either such a pro-p group G contains no closed free pro-p groups of infinite rank, or there exists an orientation $\theta :G\to {\mathbb{Z}}_p^{\times }$ such that G is theta-abelian. In case that G is also finitely generated, this implies that G is powerful, p-adic analytic with d(G)=cd(G), and its \F_p-cohomology ring is an exterior algebra. These results will be obtained by studying locally powerful groups (see Theorem A). There are certain Galois-theoretical implications, since Bloch-Kato pro-p groups arise naturally as maximal pro-p quotients and pro-p Sylow subgroups of absolute Galois groups (see Corollary 4.9). Finally, we study certain closure operations of the class of Bloch-Kato pro-p groups, connected with the Elementary type conjecture.

arXiv comment17 pages, to appear on Forum Math

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