Unramified biquadratic extension of a real quadratic field
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For distinct primes , put and . The algebraic integers and generate an order whose basis has discriminant of elements of a number field : the trace pairing matrix is, up to basis order, the tensor product of the quadratic trace matrices of determinants and . If its index in is , the discriminant-index formula for an integral lattice and the relative discriminant tower formula giveBoth and this ideal norm are positive integers, forcing and . Thus is unramified at all finite primes. It is also totally real, so no real place ramifies. This quadratic abelian extension is contained in the ordinary Hilbert class field of , and Artin reciprocity gives a quotient of its ideal class group of order two. The extensions and are equal to , not two different extensions of .
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