On different notions of tameness in arithmetic geometry (Q845757)

The notion of a tamely ramified covering is canonical only for curves. In this paper the authors compare the following notions of tameness for coverings of higher dimensional schemes: curve-tameness, divisor-tameness, chain-tameness and valuation-tameness. Curve-tameness is the maximal definition of tameness which is stable under base change and extends the given definition for curves. Valuation-tameness is stronger than divisor-tameness and chain-tameness. The authors prove that all these definitions are essentially equivalent.