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Galois Representations and (Phi, Gamma)-Modules

by Peter Schneider

Cambridge University Press

Hardcover/Mathematics 156 pages English Apr 20, 2017

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Understanding Galois representations is one of the central goals of number theory. Around 1990, Fontaine devised a strategy to compare such p-adic Galois representations to seemingly much simpler objects of (semi)linear algebra, the so-called etale (phi, gamma)-modules. This book is the first to provide a detailed and self-contained introduction to this theory. The close connection between the absolute Galois groups of local number fields and local function fields in positive characteristic is established using the recent theory of perfectoid fields and the tilting correspondence. The author works in the general framework of Lubin-Tate extensions of local number fields, and provides an introduction to Lubin-Tate formal groups and to the formalism of ramified Witt vectors. This book will allow graduate students to acquire the necessary basis for solving a research problem in this area, while also offering researchers many of the basic results in one convenient location.
Author:
Peter Schneider
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
Apr 20, 2017
Number of pages:
156 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover/Mathematics
ISBN-10:
110718858X
ISBN-13:
9781107188587