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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 136 3 b Solution by
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Put . The polynomial is Eisenstein, so is totally ramified of degree . The cyclotomic extension is totally ramified of degree . Their coprime degrees make their intersection trivial, sohas degree and is totally ramified. It is the splitting field of , hence Galois.
Normalize by . Thensois a uniformizer. Write an automorphism aswhere and . Sincethe uniformizer criterion for lower ramification groups gives valuation one for when , and valuation when , . Thereforeand for . These are the ramification groups of the splitting field of Xp minus p over the p-adic numbers.
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