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Depth of Artin-Schreier defect towers

Commutative Algebra 2025-03-25 v1

Abstract

The depth of a simple algebraic extension (L/K,v)(L/K,v) of valued fields is the minimal length of the Mac Lane-Vaqui\'e chains of the valuations on K[x]K[x] determined by the choice of different generators of the extension. In a previous paper, we characterized the defectless unibranched extensions of depth one. In this paper, we analyze this problem for towers of Artin-Schreier defect extensions. Under certain conditions on (K,v)(K,v), we prove that the towers obtained as the compositum of linearly disjoint defect Artin-Schreier extensions of KK have depth one. We conjecture that these are the only depth one Artin-Schreier defect towers and we present some examples supporting this conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2503.18827,
  title  = {Depth of Artin-Schreier defect towers},
  author = {Enric Nart and Josnei Novacoski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.18827},
  year   = {2025}
}