Defect extensions and a characterization of tame fields (Q6105006)

In this paper, the authors study the relation between two important classes of valued fields namely tame fields and defectless fields. It has been shown that if \((K, v)\) is a non-trivially valued Henselian field and it is of rank 1 when \((K, v)\) is of mixed characteristic, then \((K, v)\) is tame if and only if every algebraic extension of \((K, v)\) is a defectless field. The authors introduce a wider class of roughly tame fields and show that every algebraic extension of a given valued field is defectless if and only if its henselization is roughly tame. The authors also present constructions of Galois defect extensions of \((K, v)\) in positive as well as mixed characteristic cases.