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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 24 2 b ii Solution by
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True. Each element of the Galois group preserves the extending absolute value on a field, because composing it with that absolute value on a field gives another extension, equal to the original by part (a). Thus all conjugates of have the same absolute value on a field. Writing , the field norm givesA unit field norm has absolute value on a field one, forcing . This means both and are in the valuation ring, so is a unit.
Equivalently, with normalized discrete valuations and residue degree ,This is unit norm detects units in a local extension.
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