Timeline for What evidence is there that $\mathbb{Q}^{ab}$ is ample?

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Jun 25, 2013 at 9:13	answer	added	Alex B.		timeline score: 7
Jun 24, 2013 at 19:30	history	edited	Makhalan Duff	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 182 characters in body
Jun 24, 2013 at 0:19	comment	added	user29720		Aha, right you are. Well, the "ampleness" condition is new to me, and I am amazed to hear that it is conjectured to be true.
Jun 23, 2013 at 20:14	comment	added	Makhalan Duff		kreck, I think you are confusing between "ample" and "PAC" (Pseudo Algebraically Closed). The maximal solvable extension of $\mathbb{Q}$ is thought to perhaps be PAC. But ampleness is a much weaker condition.
Jun 23, 2013 at 20:09	comment	added	user29720		The solvable variant seems more like a question than a conjecture, as it is just an optimistic guess with no compelling evidence beyond that it sure would be useful if it were true (validity in low-genus cases is not particularly convincing, even if rather nontrivial for genus 1). Where in the literature has someone been bold enough to pose the "abelian" version as a question, let alone as a conjecture?
Jun 23, 2013 at 19:48	history	edited	Makhalan Duff	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 4 characters in body
Jun 23, 2013 at 19:38	history	asked	Makhalan Duff	CC BY-SA 3.0