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Orders of decomposition and inertia groups
Statement
For finite Galois L/K and nonzero , writing e and f for its ramification index and residue degree, The prime P is unramified over p if and only if its inertia group is trivial.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The data and hypotheses of the statement.
Decomposition inertia exact sequence: For finite Galois L/K and fixed nonzero , reduction gives the exact sequence In particular is canonically the residue Galois group.
In a finite Galois extension the Galois group acts transitively on the primes above , the stabilizer of is , and orbit-stabilizer gives (Galois action on primes above a prime is transitive, Orbit-stabiliser: , , is a well-defined bijection).
For the primes above , the common ramification index and residue degree satisfy (Galois prime decomposition efg).
A finite extension of a finite field of order is Galois with cyclic Galois group generated by : Let be a finite field of order and let be a finite field having as a subfield, with (def-extension-degree-and-finite-extension). Then is a finite Galois extension (def-finite-galois-extension-and-galois-group) and is cyclic of order , generated by the relative Frobenius (def-relative-frobenius-of-a-finite-field-extension).
Proof
By [F2] and [F3], . The residue extension has cyclic Galois group of order f, so the exact sequence gives and .
Finite residue extensions are separable. Thus here unramified means e=1, which implies and I trivial. Conversely trivial I has order one, so e=1 and the prime is unramified.
Depends on
- Decomposition inertia exact sequence
- A finite extension of a finite field of order $q$ is Galois with cyclic Galois group generated by $x\mapsto x^q$
- Galois prime decomposition efg
- Orbit-stabiliser: $G/G_x\to G\cdot x$, $gG_x\mapsto g\cdot x$, is a well-defined bijection
- Galois action on primes above a prime is transitive
Used by
- Arithmetic of Q(zeta₅) Example
- Decomposition inertia in a quadratic field Example
- Good polynomial reduction kills inertia Lemma
- Conductor of a full cyclotomic field Theorem
- Decomposition and inertia fixed fields Theorem
- Decomposition and inertia in towers Theorem
- Unramified frobenius element exists uniquely Theorem
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Sources
- §9.3.2, Corollary 9.3.7, p.106 (standard reference, not scraped)