Discrete Valuation Rings and Valuations On Fields
To every field with discrete valuation we can associate the subring
of, which is a discrete valuation ring. Conversely, the valuation on a discrete valuation ring can be extended to a valuation on the quotient field giving a discrete valued field, whose associated discrete valuation ring is just .
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