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Ramification Groups of Abelian Local Field Extensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Murray A. Marshall*
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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Let k be a local field; that is, a complete discrete-valued field having a perfect residue class field. If L is a finite Galois extension of k then L is also a local field. Let G denote the Galois group GL|k. Then the nth ramification group Gn is defined by

where OL, denotes the ring of integers of L, and PL is the prime ideal of OL. The ramification groups form a descending chain of invariant subgroups of G:

1

In this paper, an attempt is made to characterize (in terms of the arithmetic of k) the ramification filters (1) obtained from abelian extensions L\k.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

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