Finite extensions of local fields

In algebraic number theory, through completion, the study of ramification of a prime ideal can often be reduced to the case of local fields where a more detailed analysis can be carried out with the aid of tools such as ramification groups.

In this article, a local field is non-archimedean and has finite residue field.

Unramified extension

Let $L/K$ be a finite Galois extension of nonarchimedean local fields with finite residue fields $l/k$ and Galois group $G$ . Then the following are equivalent.

(i) $L/K$ is unramified.
(ii) ${\mathcal {O}}_{L}/{\mathcal {O}}_{L}{\mathfrak {p}}$ is a field, where ${\mathfrak {p}}$ is the maximal ideal of ${\mathcal {O}}_{K}$ .
(iii) $[L:K]=[l:k]$
(iv) The inertia subgroup of $G$ is trivial.
(v) If $\pi$ is a uniformizing element of $K$ , then $\pi$ is also a uniformizing element of $L$ .

When $L/K$ is unramified, by (iv) (or (iii)), G can be identified with $\operatorname {Gal}(l/k)$ , which is finite cyclic.

The above implies that there is an equivalence of categories between the finite unramified extensions of a local field K and finite separable extensions of the residue field of K.

Totally ramified extension

Again, let $L/K$ be a finite Galois extension of nonarchimedean local fields with finite residue fields $l/k$ and Galois group $G$ . The following are equivalent.

$L/K$ is totally ramified
$G$ coincides with its inertia subgroup.
$L=K[\pi ]$ where $\pi$ is a root of an Eisenstein polynomial.
The norm $N(L/K)$ contains a uniformizer of $K$ .

References

Cassels, J.W.S. (1986). Local Fields. London Mathematical Society Student Texts. 3. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-31525-5. Zbl 0595.12006.
Weiss, Edwin (1976). Algebraic Number Theory (2nd unaltered ed.). Chelsea Publishing. ISBN 0-8284-0293-0. Zbl 0348.12101.

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Finite extensions of local fields

Unramified extension

Totally ramified extension

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