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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 21 3 ii b Solution by
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Write and . The cubic is Eisenstein and adjoining adds at most a quadratic extension, so . SetUsing and , compute and . Thus satisfies the Eisenstein polynomial . This proves , degree six, with a uniformiser and the extension totally ramified. It is the splitting field of , so its Galois group is . This is the Eisenstein sextic presentation of the splitting field of X3 minus 3 over Q3.
If , use . Then . The coefficient reduces to in the residue field , so the difference has valuation one. These three automorphisms are the transpositions.
The uniformizer criterion for lower ramification groups consequently givesAs a consistency check, the different exponent is . The derivative of the monogenic Eisenstein polynomial gives the same value, . In particular, stopping the wild filtration at would give the wrong different.
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