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On the Number of Prolongations of a Finite Rank Valuation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Michael J. Wright
Michael J. Wright*
Affiliation:
Loyola University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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A (non-archimedean) valuation v on a field K is said to be henselian if it has a unique prolongation to a valuation on Ka, the algebraic closure of K. A henselization (Kh, vh) of a valuated field (K, v) is a smallest separable extension of K containing a henselian prolongation vh of v. (Kh, vh) is unique up to K-isomorphism, and (Kh, vh) = (K, v) if and only if v is henselian. In this paper we confine ourselves to valuations of finite rank.

If v is a non-henselian rank one valuation on K, and if [Ks:K] = ∞, Ks being the separable closure of K, then it is known that v has infinitely many prolongations to Ka [1, (27.11)]. We shall see that this is no longer true if the rank of v is greater than one.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , June 1971 , pp. 553 - 556
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

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