Extensions of local fields and elementary symmetric polynomials

Abstract: Let

K

be a local field whose residue field has characteristic

p

and let

L / K

be a finite separable totally ramified extension of degree

n = u p^{u}

. Let

s i g m a_{1}, d o t s, s i g m a_{n}

denote the

K

-embeddings of

L

into a separable closure

K^{s e p}

of

K

. For

1 l e h l e n

let

e_{h} (X_{1}, d o t s, X_{n})

denote the

h

th elementary symmetric polynomial in

n

variables, and for

a l p h a i n L

set

E_{h} (a l p h a) = e_{h} (s i g m a_{1} (a l p h a), d o t s, s i g m a_{n} (a l p h a))

. Set

j = m i n v_{p} (h), u

. We show that for

r i n m a t h b b Z

we have

E_{h} (m a t h c a l M_{L}^{r}) s u b s e t m a t h c a l M_{K}^{l c e i l (i_{j} + h r) / n c e i l}

, where

i_{j}

is the

j

th index of inseparability of

L / K

. In certain cases we also show that

E_{h} (m a t h c a l M_{L}^{r})

is not contained in any higher power of

m a t h c a l M_{K}

.

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