Splitting of rational primes in a quadratic field
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Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For a quadratic field of discriminant and a rational prime , the ideal splits into two distinct prime ideals, remains prime, or ramifies according as the quadratic character is , , or . The corresponding prime-ideal norms are , , and , respectively.
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