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2 Lower Ramification Group

Definition 2.1 Decomposition Group
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The decomposition group of \(L/K\) is the subgroup

\[ \{ \sigma \in \operatorname{Gal}(L/K)\mid \sigma (\mathcal{O}_L) \subset \mathcal{O}_L\} \]

of \(\operatorname{Gal}(L/K)\)

Definition 2.2 Lower Index
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The lower index of \(\sigma \in \operatorname{Gal}(L/K)\) is

\[ i_{L/K}(\sigma ) := \begin{cases} \infty , & \sigma = 1,\\ , & \sigma \ne 1. \end{cases} \]
Theorem 2.3
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Theorem 2.4

If \(\sigma \in \operatorname{Gal}(L/K)\) lies in the decomposition group of \(L/K\), then

\[ i_{L/K}(\sigma ) = \infty \iff s = 1. \]
Proof
Theorem 2.5
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The lower ramification groups \(\operatorname{Gal}(L/K)_{u}\) vanish for \(u\in \mathbb {Z}\) large enough.