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The Schur Subgroup of a p-Adic Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Eugene Spiegel
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Allan Trojan
Affiliation:
Atkinson College, York University, Downsview, Ontario
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Let K be a field. The Schur subgroup, S(K), of the Brauer group, B(K), consists of all classes [△] in B(K) some representative of which is a simple component of one of the semi-simple group algebras, KG, where G is a finite group such that char KG. Yamada ([11], p. 46) has characterized S(K) for all finite extensions of the p-adic number field, Qp. If p is odd, [△] ∈ S(K) if and only if

where c is the tame ramification index of k/Qp, k the maximal cyclotomic subfield of K, and s = ((p – 1)/c, [K : k]). invp △ is the Hasse invariant. Yamada showed this by proving first that S(K) is the group of classes containing cyclotomic algebras and then determining the invariants of such algebras.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1979

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