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Enumeration of Isomorphism Classes of Extensions of p-adic Fields

Number Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let Ω\Omega be an algebraic closure of Qp{\mathbb Q}_p and let FF be a finite extension of Qp{\mathbb Q}_p contained in Ω\Omega. Given positive integers ff and ee, the number of extensions K/FK/F contained in Ω\Omega with residue degree ff and ramification index ee was computed by Krasner. This paper is concerned with the number I(F,f,e){\mathfrak I}(F,f,e) of FF-isomorphism classes of such extensions. We determine I(F,f,e){\mathfrak I}(F,f,e) completely when p2ep^2\nmid e and get partial results when p2ep^2\parallel e. When ss is large, I(Qp,f,e){\mathfrak I}({\mathbb Q}_p,f,e) is equal to the number of isomorphism classes of finite commutative chain rings with residue field Fpf{\mathbb F}_{p^f}, ramification index ee, and length ss.

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@article{arxiv.math/0110055,
  title  = {Enumeration of Isomorphism Classes of Extensions of p-adic Fields},
  author = {Xiang-dong Hou and Kevin Keating},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0110055},
  year   = {2007}
}

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