Ramification under field isomorphisms #
The ramification index depends on the extension, not on its presentation as a field carrier: transporting a place of the upstairs field along an isomorphism over the downstairs field does not change its ramification index. This allows an extension to be placed in a finite Galois overfield without changing its ramification behaviour.
More generally, a commutative square of semilinear isomorphisms, σK : K ≃+* K' below and
τ : L ≃+* L' above, carrying the constants k onto k' along σ, carries the place of L over
P to a place of L' over the transport of P, with the same ramification index and the same
relative degree (TauCeti.Place.restrict_equivOfRingEquiv,
TauCeti.Place.ramificationIdx_equivOfRingEquiv_of_comm and
TauCeti.Place.relativeDegree_equivOfRingEquiv_of_comm). The constants need not be fixed, so this
is how a Galois automorphism of the constants acts on the places of a base-changed extension.
Over the identity of the constants these are TauCeti.Place.restrict_map,
TauCeti.Place.ramificationIdx_map and TauCeti.Place.relativeDegree_map, for k-algebra
isomorphisms. With K = K' and L = L' as fields, this is how a change of the embedding of the
base field by an automorphism moves places and their ramification.
The ramification index is invariant under a commutative square of semilinear
isomorphisms: if τ : L ≃+* L' carries the image of K onto the image of K' along
σK : K ≃+* K', then transporting a place of L along τ does not change its ramification
index.
Restriction commutes with a commutative square of semilinear isomorphisms: if
τ : L ≃+* L' carries the image of K onto the image of K' along σK : K ≃+* K', which
carries the constants along σ, then the transport of a place Q of L lies over the transport
of the place below Q.
The relative degree is invariant under a commutative square of semilinear isomorphisms:
if τ : L ≃+* L' carries the constants along σ and the image of K onto the image of K'
along σK : K ≃+* K', then transporting a place of L along τ does not change its relative
degree over the place below. The residue fields above and below are matched by τ and by σK.
The ramification index is invariant under an isomorphism of the upstairs field over the
base field: transporting a place of L along e : L ≃ₐ[F] L' does not change its ramification
index over F.
The ramification index is invariant under a commutative square of isomorphisms: if
e : L ≃ₐ[k] L' carries the image of K onto the image of K' along σ : K ≃+* K', then
transporting a place of L along e does not change its ramification index.
Restriction commutes with a commutative square of isomorphisms: if e : L ≃ₐ[k] L'
carries the image of K onto the image of K' along a k-algebra isomorphism σ, then the
transport of a place Q of L lies over the transport of the place below Q.
The relative degree is invariant under a commutative square of isomorphisms: if
e : L ≃ₐ[k] L' carries the image of K onto the image of K' along σ : K ≃+* K', then
transporting a place of L along e does not change its relative degree.