Lifting Artin-Schreier covers with maximal wild monodromy (Q2436630)

Let \(k\) be an algebraically closed field of characteristic \(p > 0\). In this paper, studied is a problem of lifting \(p\)-cyclic covers of \(\mathbb P^1_k\) to \(p\)-cyclic covers \(C\) of \(\mathbb P^1\) over some discrete valuation field \(K\) under the condition that the wild monodromy is maximal. For a cover given birationally by \(w ^{p } - w = t R(t)\) with an additive polynomial \(R(t)\) over \(k\), the author closely looks at a certain curve over a field \(K=\mathbb{Q}_p^{ur}((\zeta_p-1)^{1/(1+p^n)})\) to have maximal wild monodromy, with explicitly calculating the monodromy extension \(M/K\) whose Galois group turns out to be an extra-special \(p\)-group. ``One gives further informations about the ramification filtration of the monodromy extension and in the case when \(p = 2\), one computes the conductor exponent \(f\)(Jac\((C)/K\)) and the Swan conductor \(\mathrm{sw}(\mathrm{Jac}(C)/K)\).''