Lectures on Field Theory and Ramification Theory
by Sudhir R. Ghorpade
Publisher: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 2008
Number of pages: 36
Description:
These are the notes of a series of five lectures, aimed at covering the essentials of Field Theory and Ramification Theory as may be needed for local and global class field theory. Included are the two sections on cyclic extensions and abelian extensions.
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