Conjugacy separable group 2026-09-28
A group is conjugacy separable when any two nonconjugate elements remain nonconjugate in some finite quotient. Equivalently, every conjugacy class is closed in the profinite topology.
Let be the inertia group and let denote Frobenius on the residue-field extension. The Relative Weil group is
Its Weil-group topology makes an open profinite group with its usual topology and gives the discrete topology. Thus every inertia coset is an open copy of .
Take , the maximal unramified extension of . Then
The subgroup is open in the discrete Weil-group topology, but it is not open in the profinite topology inherited from .