The ramification group filtrations of certain function field extensions (Q2516652)

The authors investigate ramification group filtrations for Galois extensions \(L\) of function fields \(K\) over constant fields of characteristic \(p\). They consider extensions where the Galois group \(\text{Gal}(L/K)\) has order exactly divisible by \(p^n\) (for some \(n\geq 1\)) and each of its Sylow \(p\)-subgroups \(H_p\) is such that every proper subgroup \(F\) is the intersection of those subgroups of \(H_p\) of order \(p^{n-1}\) containing \(F\). After a reduction to the totally wildly ramified setting, the focus is on the ramification groups of all degree-\(p\) subextensions. The Hasse-Arf property (that the distance between two consecutive jumps in a ramification group filtration is divisible by the index of the group at the jump in the first group of the filtration) is shown to hold in this setting.