The local index and the Swan conductor

Abstract

In this paper we study local indices of systems of p-adic linearly differential equations which arise from p-adic representations of the absolute Galois group of local field of characteristic p with finite monodromy. We show the induction formula of the local index of p-adic differential equations and prove the equality between the local index of differential equations and the Swan conductor of p-adic Galois representations by inductive methods.