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T. Saito established a ramification theory for ring extensions locally of complete intersection. We show that for a Henselian valuation ring $A$ with field of fractions $K$ and for a finite Galois extension $L$ of $K‘$, the integral closure $B$ of $A$ in $L$ is a filtered union of subrings of $B$ which are of complete intersection over $A$. By this, we can obtain a ramification theory of Henselian valuation rings as the limit of the ramification theory of Saito. Our theory generalizes the ramification theory of complete discrete valuation rings of Abbes–Saito. We study “defect extensions” which are not treated in these previous works.

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