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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 21 3 ii a Solution by
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Put , with . The shifted cyclotomic polynomial is Eisenstein at : its constant term is , and modulo it is . Therefore is totally ramified of degree and is a uniformiser.
The Galois group is , with . For , let , . Then is a primitive th root. Its difference from one is a uniformiser in the corresponding smaller cyclotomic field, and the relative ramification index is . HenceThe uniformizer criterion for lower ramification groups now determines every group. Write , with . Then the lower ramification filtration of a prime-power cyclotomic extension isFor the middle range is empty and the extension is tame. The formula also includes ; then is already the whole group, so the first possible drop is later than in the odd-prime case. For , the entire extension is trivial.
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