Tame Representations of Local Weil Groups and of Chain Groups of Local Principal Orders

We begin by making clear the meaning of the term "tame". The higher ramifi­ cation groups, on the one hand, and the one-units of chain groups, on the other, are to lie in the kernels of the respective representations considered. We shall establish a very natural and very well behaved relationship between representa­ tions of the two groups mentioned in the title, with all the right properties, and...