Quadratic extensions of the 2-adic numbers
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The three generators of the square-class group of the 2-adic numbers give these seven distinct extensions. In characteristic different from two, completing the square shows every quadratic extension is of this form, and comparing coefficients in proves that two such fields coincide precisely when is a square. The only unramified member is : is integral with irreducible reduction . Conversely any unramified quadratic extension has that residue field, and Hensel lemma lifts a residue root of , recovering the same field.
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