Module

MixedCharacteristicCharacters.lean

Nyll.GaloisCohomology.Kummer.Concrete.MixedCharacteristicCharacters
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Prime cyclic characters of mixed-characteristic discretely valued fields

Finiteness of primary roots in every finite extension forces the cyclotomic character to have infinite image. Its image therefore has a cyclic quotient of order equal to the residue characteristic.

Declarations

KummerTheory.exists_surjective_prime_character_of_mixedChar

Every mixed-characteristic discretely valued field has a continuous cyclic quotient of residue-prime order.

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namespace KummerTheory
open ValuationTheory.DiscreteValuationField
variable {K : Type*} [Field K] [CharZero K]
theorem exists_surjective_prime_character_of_mixedChar
    (base : DVF K) (p : ℕ) [Fact p.Prime] [CharP base.residueField p] :
    ∃ ψ : Gal(AlgebraicClosure K/K) →ₜ* Multiplicative (ZMod p),
      Function.Surjective ψ