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The Ostrowski theorem says that every nontrivial absolute value on a field defined on is equivalent either to the usual absolute value or to for a unique prime .
Let an absolute value on the number field extend . Its valuation ring determines
a prime ideal satisfying . Conversely, each prime above defines the normalized absolute value
where . It restricts to . The correspondence between extensions and primes follows either from the valuation ring or from local factorization and extended absolute values; distinct primes give inequivalent valuations. Thus these are exactly the extensions, up to equivalence.
For the tensor-product assertion, choose a primitive element of a field extension for , with minimal polynomial . Because number fields are separable, over it factors into distinct irreducibles
indexed by the primes . The Chinese remainder theorem gives
The th factor is the completion of a number field at a prime ideal . Under these identifications the isomorphism is the natural diagonal map , proving the p-adic tensor decomposition of a number field

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