The local fibre count for counted subextensions #
These IntermediateField theorems specialize the root-ball criterion to totally ramified
subextensions of a fixed separable closure. They install each finite subextension's canonical
local-field structures, so callers supply only membership in totallyRamifiedOfDegree.
For a uniformizer ξ, a monic degree-n polynomial g, and radius order r > d, where
d is the discriminant exponent, the ball v_L(z - ξ) ≥ r contains a root precisely when
v_L(g(ξ)) ≥ r + d, and that root is unique. This criterion supplies the local fibres used to
integrate the root count of Eisenstein polynomials. For a left-invariant measure on the
coefficient space normalized on the integer box, the fibre over such a ball has volume
q ^ (-(r + d)), where q is the residue cardinality of K.
References #
- J.-P. Serre, Une « formule de masse » pour les extensions totalement ramifiées de degré donné d'un corps local, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. A 286 (1978), 1031–1036, Lemma 1 and §3.
The local fibre criterion for a counted subextension, using its canonical local-field structures. No topology or valuation on the subextension is supplied by the caller.
The unique-root form of the local fibre criterion for a counted subextension, with its canonical local-field structures.
The volume of a local fibre for a counted subextension L ∈ σ_K(n), with its canonical
local-field structures. For a uniformizer ξ of L and d < r, where d is the discriminant
exponent, and a left-invariant measure on Fin n → K normalized on the integer box, the monic
polynomials of degree n over 𝒪[K] having a root in the ball v_L(z - ξ) ≥ r, identified with
their lower coefficients, have volume q ^ (-(r + d)), where q = Nat.card 𝓀[K].