On the injectivity of the homomorphisms from the automorphism groups of fields to the outer automorphism groups of the absolute Galois groups (Q6098532)

Let \(k\) be a field, \(\bar{k}\) be a separable closure of \(k\) and \(G_k\) be the Galois group of the extension \(\bar{k}/k\). If Out\((G_k)\) denotes the group of outer automorphisms of the group \(G_k\), then there exists an action by conjugation: Aut\((\bar{k}/k) \rightarrow\) Aut\((G_k)\), that determines a homomorphism of groups: Aut\((k) \rightarrow\) Out\((G_k)\). In this article, the authors discuss the injectivity of this resulting homomorphism Aut\((k) \rightarrow\) Out\((G_k)\) and prove that, this natural homomorphism is injective in the case where, for instance, the given field may be embedded into the field of fractions of some Noetherian local domain of mixed characteristic.