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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 136 2 a Solution by
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One strong form of Hensel lemma is this: if is complete for a discrete valuation , , and satisfiesthen there is a unique root satisfying
Define the Newton iteration over a valued fieldTaylor expansion and the ultrametric inequality show inductively that andThus the valuations of the corrections tend to infinity, so is a Cauchy sequence. Completeness gives a limit , and continuity gives . If is another root in the stated ball, Taylor expansion of shows that the linear term has strictly smaller valuation than all higher terms unless , proving uniqueness.
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