Explicit quadratic Hilbert symbols over the p-adic numbers
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For odd and p-adic units , the quadratic Hilbert symbol isThe Legendre symbols record the two unit square classes. For , put and . ThenThe basis of the square-class group of the 2-adic numbers gives this formula: its only negative basis pairings are and . The first is obstructed by sums of squares modulo four, the second by modulo eight; the remaining pairings have explicit field norm representatives.
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