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TauCeti.Topology.Algebra.Group.Profinite.Demushkin.OpenSubgroup

Open subgroups of Demushkin groups #

An open subgroup U of an infinite Demushkin group G is again a Demushkin group, its rank is n(U) = 2 + [G : U] (n(G) - 2), and its canonical character is the restriction of the canonical character of G (Serre's exposé, §9.2). The first two statements are read off Tate's perfect duality on the finite 𝔽_p[G]-modules of G (TauCeti/Topology/Algebra/Group/Profinite/Demushkin/Duality/Basic.lean), applied to the permutation module Coind_U^G 𝔽_p, whose cohomology is that of U by Shapiro's lemma.

The hypothesis that G is infinite is used: ℤ/2 is a finite Demushkin group whose trivial subgroup is open and not Demushkin.

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H²(U, 𝔽_p) of an open subgroup U of an infinite Demushkin group is one-dimensional: its explicit model has p elements.

An open subgroup of an infinite Demushkin group is Demushkin (Serre's exposé, §9.2). The subgroup is pro-p and topologically finitely generated with G; its H²(U, 𝔽_p) is one-dimensional by TauCeti.IsDemushkin.finrank_cohomFp_two_openSubgroup; and its cup product is nondegenerate because a nonzero class of H¹(U, 𝔽_p) ≅ H¹(G, Coind_U^G 𝔽_p) is paired nontrivially by Tate's duality map α₁ of G, a pairing which is the corestriction of a cup product of U.

The rank formula for an open subgroup of an infinite Demushkin group, in ℤ: n(U) - 2 = [G : U] (n(G) - 2). This is the three-term Euler formula 1 - d(U) + dim H²(U, 𝔽_p) = [G : U] (1 - d(G) + dim H²(G, 𝔽_p)), which applies because cd_p G ≤ 2, with both H² terms equal to 1.

The rank formula for an open subgroup of an infinite Demushkin group, in ℕ: n(U) = 2 + [G : U] (n(G) - 2). The subtraction is not truncated, since an infinite Demushkin group has rank at least 2.

The canonical character of an open subgroup of an infinite Demushkin group is the restriction of the canonical character (Serre's exposé, §9.2): the restriction χ|_U has the prescription property on U, since Tate's duality map α₂ of U with values in H²(U, I(χ|_U)/pⁱ⁺¹) is injective on I(χ|_U)/pⁱ, as it is for G by Tate's duality at level pⁱ⁺¹.

The image of the canonical character of an open subgroup U is the image of U under the canonical character: Im(χ|_U) = χ(U). Together with the rank formula, this is the invariant form of the open-subgroup theorem that the classification reads.