Invitation to higher local fields, Part I, section 12: Two types of complete discrete valuation fields

Masato Kurihara

Published 2000-12-18Version 1

This work sketches the author classification of complete discrete valuation fields K of characteristic 0 with residue field of characteristic p into two classes depending on the behaviour of the torsion part of a differential module. For each of these classes, the quotient filtration of the Milnor K-groups of K is characterized for all sufficiently large members of the filtration, as a quotient of differential modules. For a higher local field the previous result and higher local class field theory imply certain restrictions on types of cyclic extensions of the field of sufficiently large degree.