Unramified Prime and Frobenius Element

The conjugacy class $\mathrm{Frob}_p$ in a Galois group controlling unramified local factors
Unramified Prime and Frobenius Element

Let K/kK/k be a finite Galois extension of number fields and let p\mathfrak p be a prime of kk that is unramified in KK (ramification index e=1e=1 in KK).

For a prime Pp\mathfrak P|\mathfrak p of KK, the decomposition group D(Pp)Gal(K/k)D(\mathfrak P|\mathfrak p)\subset \mathrm{Gal}(K/k) maps onto Gal(κ(P)/κ(p))\mathrm{Gal}(\kappa(\mathfrak P)/\kappa(\mathfrak p)).

The Frobenius element FrobP\mathrm{Frob}_{\mathfrak P} is the unique element acting on the residue field by xxκ(p)x\mapsto x^{|\kappa(\mathfrak p)|}; its conjugacy class Frobp\mathrm{Frob}_{\mathfrak p} is independent of P\mathfrak P.

In the letter: σ\sigma denotes such a Frobenius and is the Galois component of αp\alpha_p.