Local Fields

by Jean-Pierre Serre

Book Overview

The goal of this book is to present local class field theory from the cohomo- logical point of view, following the method inaugurated by Hochschild and developed by Artin-Tate. This theory is about extensions-primarily abelian-of local (i.e., complete for a discrete valuation) fields with finite residue field. For example, such fields are obtained by completing an algebraic number field; that is one of the aspects of localisation. The chapters are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387904247
• ISBN13: 9780387904245
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"