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This talk will be about two related results concerning Galois actions on pro-p fundamental groups of curves over mixed characteristic local fields, with applications to the algorithmic resolution of Diophantine equations. The first result is joint with Alex Betts, and gives a description of how the Galois action on the fundamental group varies with the choice of basepoint in terms of harmonic analysis on the dual graph of the special fibre of a stable model (when p is different from the residue characteristic). The second result is joint with Jan Vonk, and gives a description of how to compute the Galois action (in a p-adic Hodge theoretic sense) when the residue characteristic is p and the curve has semistable reduction.

I will discuss the notion of invariably generated groups and present a construction of an invariably generated group that admits an index two subgroup that is not invariably generated. The construction answers questions of Wiegold and of Kantor-Lubotzky-Shalev. This is a joint work with Nir Lazarovich.