local field

Examples of local fields include:

In fact, this list is completePlanetmathPlanetmath—every local field is isomorphic as a topological field to one of the above fields.

1 Acknowledgements

This document is dedicated to those who made it all the way through Serre’s book [1] before realizing that nowhere within the book is there a definition of the term “local field.”

References

  • 1 Jean–Pierre Serre, Local Fields, Springer–Verlag, 1979 (GTM 67).
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