Branch-cycle conjugacy class

ID: branch-cycle-conjugacy-class

For a Finite Galois extension of with algebraically closed characteristic-zero constants, the local decomposition and inertia groups coincide and are cyclic. A fixed compatible choice of primitive roots of unity selects a generator through its uniformizer character of inertia. Changing the prime above a base point conjugates this generator, and changing the uniformizer does not change its character. Without the roots-of-unity convention, only the inertia-subgroup conjugacy class is intrinsic. Over , positive local orientation gives the standard convention.

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