Good Sections of Arithmetic Fundamental Groups

Abstract

In this paper we exhibit the notion of (uniformly) good sections of arithmetic fundamental groups. We introduce and investigate the problem of cuspidalisation of sections of arithmetic fundamental groups, its ultimate aim is to reduce the solution of the Grothendieck anabelian section conjecture to the solution of its birational version. We show that (uniformly) good sections of arithmetic fundamental groups of smooth, proper, and geometrically connected hyperbolic curves over slim (and regular) fields can be lifted to sections of cuspidally abelian absolute Galois groups. As an application we prove a (pro-p) p-adic version of the Grothendieck anabelian section conjecture for hyperbolic curves, under the assumption that the existence of sections of arithmetic fundamental groups, and cuspidally abelian Galois groups, implies the existence of tame points. We also prove that the existence of uniformly good sections of arithmetic fundamental groups for hyperbolic curves over number fields implies the existence of divisors of degree 1, under a finiteness condition of the Tate-Shafarevich group of the jacobian of the curve.