Finite étale extensions of Tate rings and decompletion of perfectoid algebras

Abstract

In this paper, we examine the behavior of ideal-adic separatedness and completeness under certain ring extensions using trace map. Then we prove that adic completeness of a base ring is hereditary to its ring extension under reasonable conditions. We aim to give many results on ascent and descent of certain ring theoretic properties under completion. As an application, we give conceptual details to the proof of the almost purity theorem for Witt-perfect rings by Davis and Kedlaya. Witt-perfect rings have the advantage that one does not need to assume that the rings are complete and separated.