Non-Archimedean place of a number field Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
If a prime ideal of lies over the prime number with ramification index of a prime ideal , its normalized absolute value is
It extends the usual p-adic absolute value on . Its local degree is , where is the residue-field degree.
The polynomial of satisfies the Eisenstein criterion at . Let be any prime ideal of above , normalize its ideal valuation by , and write for its ramification index of a prime ideal. Put . In
the constant term has valuation , while every other has valuation at least . The non-Archimedean valuation property then forces
Indeed, either strict inequality would leave a unique term of least valuation in the equation. Since is a positive integer and , it follows that and .
The fundamental inequality now shows that is the unique prime above and has residue degree one. At this prime,
while has no factor away from . Unique prime ideal factorization therefore gives
Finally , so
This is total ramification from an Eisenstein polynomial.