The Schur subgroup of the Brauer group of a local field (Q5966474)

Let K be a finite extension of \({\mathbb{Q}}_ p\); i.e., K is a local field; and let \(K_ c=K\cap {\mathbb{Q}}\) \(c_ p\), where \({\mathbb{Q}}\) \(c_ p\) means the cyclotomic closure of \({\mathbb{Q}}_ p\), i.e. the field generated over \({\mathbb{Q}}_ p\) by adjunction of all roots of unity. The author proves that the Schur group \(S(K)\cong tor(G({\mathbb{Q}}\) \(c_ p/K_ c))\), the torsion subgroup of the Galois group of \({\mathbb{Q}}\) \(c_ p\) over \(K_ c\). Although this result is known in the literature (especially in the dyadic case, by several authors), the author makes a case for his quite different approach and methods of proof. In the non-dyadic case for example his proof uses the cup product pairing and the norm residue symbol, a different set of techniques than in previous proofs. It should be noted that \textit{F. DeMeyer} and the reviewer have generalized the concept of the Schur group to the commutative ring setting in: \((i)\quad their\) paper in ``Orders and their applications'', Proc. Conf., Oberwolfach 1984, Lect. Notes Math. 1142, 205-210 (1985; Zbl 0582.13003); \((ii)\quad J.\quad Pure\) Appl. Algebra 35, 117-122 (1985; Zbl 0555.13003); and \((iii)\quad in\quad ``Invariants\) in group rings'', J. Algebra 118, No.2, 336-345 (1988)).