The dilogarithm and the norm residue symbol
Let be an algebraically closed field of characteristic . We study obstructions to lifting to characteristic the faithful continuous action of a finite group on . To each such a theorem of Katz and Gabber associates an action of on a smooth projective curve over . We say that the KGB obstruction of vanishes if acts on a smooth projective curve in characteristic in such a way that and have the same genus for all subgroups . We determine for which the KGB obstruction...
The principal result of this paper is an explicit description of the structure of ramification subgroups of the Galois group of 2-dimensional local field modulo its subgroup of commutators of order . This result plays a clue role in the author’s proof of an analogue of the Grothendieck Conjecture for higher dimensional local fields, cf. Proc. Steklov Math. Institute, vol. 241, 2003, pp. 2-34.
We study the variation of the reduction type of elliptic curves under base change. A complete description of the variation is given when the base field is the p-adic field and the base change is of small degree.
Let be a finite field. Wintenberger used the field of norms to give an equivalence between a category whose objects are totally ramified abelian -adic Lie extensions , where is a local field with residue field , and a category whose objects are pairs , where and is an abelian -adic Lie subgroup of . In this paper we extend this equivalence to allow and to be arbitrary abelian pro- groups.