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The authors construct a new conductor (an integer-valued homomorphism) for Galois representations of general complete discrete valuation fields by using a group-theoretic method, the explicit Brauer induction. This new conductor coincides with the classical Swan conductor in the case where the residue field extension is separable, and coincides with the abelian conductor of K. Kato in the one-dimensional case. This work solves the question of \textit{J.-P. Serre} who asked whether it is possible to extend the Artin conductor (which is valid also for a smooth curve in characteristic \(p\), and the Swan conductor is a normalization of it) to the case with non-separable residue field extension when he investigated this for surfaces in [Ann. Math. (2) 72, 405-420 (1960; Zbl 0202.32803)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0880.00040].