Depth of Artin-Schreier defect towers
Commutative Algebra
2025-03-25 v1
Abstract
The depth of a simple algebraic extension of valued fields is the minimal length of the Mac Lane-Vaqui\'e chains of the valuations on 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 , we prove that the towers obtained as the compositum of linearly disjoint defect Artin-Schreier extensions of have depth one. We conjecture that these are the only depth one Artin-Schreier defect towers and we present some examples supporting this conjecture.
Cite
@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}
}