  - Let p be a prime number and K an algebraic number field. What is the
arithmetic structure of Galois extensions L/K having p-adic analytic Galois
group $\Gamma$ = Gal(L/K)? The celebrated Tame Fontaine-Mazur conjecture
predicts that such extensions are either deeply ramified (at some prime
dividing p) or ramified at an infinite number of primes. In this work, we take
up a study (initiated by Boston) of this type of question under the assumption
that L is Galois over some subfield k of K such that [K : k] is a prime = p.
Letting $\sigma$ be a generator of Gal(K/k), we study the constraints posed on
the arithmetic of L/K by the cyclic action of $\sigma$ on $\Gamma$, focusing on
the critical role played by the fixed points of this action, and their relation
to the ramification in L/K. The method of Boston works only when there are no
non-trivial fixed points for this action. We show that even in the presence of
arbitrarily many fixed points, the action of $\sigma$ places severe arithmetic
conditions on the existence of finitely and tamely ramified uniform p-adic
analytic extensions over K, which in some instances leads us to be able to
deduce the non-existence of such extensions over K from their non-existence
over k.
