We define generalizations of classical invariants of wild ramification for
coverings on a variety of arbitrary dimension over a local field. For an l-adic
sheaf, we define its Swan class as a 0-cycle class supported on the wild
ramification locus. We prove a formula of Riemann-Roch type for the Swan
conductor of cohomology together with its relative version, assuming that the
local field is of mixed characteristic.
Laumon introduced the local Fourier transform for $\ell$-adic Galois
representations of local fields, of equal characteristic $p$ different from
$\ell$, as a powerful tool to study the Fourier-Deligne transform of
$\ell$-adic sheaves over the affine line. In this article, we compute
explicitly the local Fourier transform of monomial representations satisfying a
certain ramification condition, and deduce Laumon's formula relating the
epsilon factor to the determinant of the local Fourier transform under the same
condition.