Construction of locally compact near-fields from \(\mathfrak{p}\)-adic division algebras (Q2210830)

It was shown by \textit{T. Grundhöfer} in [Forum Math. 1, No. 1, 81--101 (1989; Zbl 0649.20045)] that every disconnected locally compact near-field of characteristic zero is a Dickson near-field and hence can be constructed from a finite dimensional central division algebra \(D\) over a \(p\)-adic field \(F\) by some coupling map \(\kappa\). Not much is known about the exact structure of these coupling maps, especially if the dimension of the division algebra \(D\) is greater than one. The author investigates the case that \(D\) is tamely ramified over \(F\) and \(\kappa\) is a strong, i.e. homomorphic, coupling with finite abelian image in \(D^{\ast}/F^{\ast}\). In particular, it turns out that only a finite number of non isomorphic near-fields can be derived from a given \(D\).