TY - BOOK AU - Jean-Pierre Serre. AU - Jean-Pierre Serre. TI - Local fields T2 - Graduate texts in mathematics, 67 SN - 9780387904245 U1 - 512.74 SER PY - 1979/// CY - New York PB - : Springer-Verlag KW - Mathematics KW - Homology theory KW - Algebra N1 - pt. I. Local fields (basic facts). Discrete valuation rings and Dedekind domains -- Completion -- pt. II. Ramification. Discriminant and different -- Ramification groups -- The norm -- Artin representation -- pt. III. Group cohomology. Basic facts -- Cohomology of finite groups -- Theorems of Tate and Nakayama -- Galois cohomology -- Class formations -- pt. IV. Local class field theory. Brauer groups of a local field --- Local class field theory -- Local symbols and existence theorem -- Ramification N2 - The goal of this book is to present local class field theory from the cohomo- logical point of view, following the method inaugurated by Hochschild and developed by Artin-Tate. This theory is about extensions-primarily abelian-of "local" (i.e., complete for a discrete valuation) fields with finite residue field. ER -