Recall that the birational anabelian conjecture originating in ideas presented in Grothendieck’s Esquisse d’un Programme [G1] and Letter to Faltings [G2], asserts roughly the following: First, there should exist a group theoretical recipe by which one can recognize the absolute Galois groups GK of finitely generated infinite fields K among all the profinite groups. Second, if G = GK is such an ...