On the Distribution of Galois Groups, II

Abstract

We propose a very precise conjecture on the asymptotics of the counting function for extensions of number fields with fixed Galois group and bounded norm of the discriminant. This sharpens a previous conjecture of the author. The conjecture is known to hold for abelian groups and a few nonabelian ones. We give a heuristic argument why the conjecture should be true. We also present some computational data for the nonsolvable groups of degree 5.