Galois cohomology and Galois representations.
This paper considers some refined versions of the Inverse Galois Problem. We study the local or global behavior of rational specializations of some finite Galois covers of .
We consider a dynamical system consisting of a pair of commuting power series under composition, one noninvertible and another nontorsion invertible, of height one with coefficients in the -adic integers. Assuming that each point of the dynamical system generates a Galois extension over the base field, we show that these extensions are in fact abelian, and, using results from the theory of the field of norms, we also show that the dynamical system must include a torsion series. From an earlier...
For , any totally ramified cyclic extension of degree of local fields which are finite extensions of the field of -adic numbers, we describe the -module structure of each fractional ideal of explicitly in terms of the indecomposable -modules classified by Heller and Reiner. The exponents are determined only by the invariants of ramification.
Let be a finite extension of with ramification index , and let be a finite abelian -extension with Galois group and ramification index . We give a criterion in terms of the ramification numbers for a fractional ideal of the valuation ring of not to be free over its associated order . In particular, if then the inverse different can be free over its associated order only when (mod ) for all . We give three consequences of this. Firstly, if is a Hopf order and is -Galois...