For a number field , its adele ring consists of tuples in the completions such that at all but finitely many finite places. This is the restricted product , with componentwise operations and the restricted-product topology.
For , one has a real component and one P-adic number component for each prime. The diagonal image of a rational number belongs to the ring because only finitely many primes divide its denominator. The construction combines archimedean and congruence information in one locally compact space, enabling global harmonic analysis and formulations of class field theory.
Given spaces with distinguished open subsets , their restricted product consists of tuples for which at all but finitely many indices.
A basic open set in a restricted product is a product of open local sets that equals the distinguished subset at all but finitely many indices.
The idele group of a number field is the restricted product with respect to at finite places. An idele is nonzero in every component and is a unit at all but finitely many finite places. Multiplication is componentwise.
This is a stronger condition than merely having an adele with no zero components: the componentwise inverse must also belong to the adele ring. For example, over , choosing the component at every finite prime gives an adele but not an idele, because infinitely many components are nonunits. Quotienting by diagonal gives the idèle class group, central in class field theory.
An idele obtained by mapping the same nonzero element of a number field into every completion. Only finitely many local valuations are nonzero, so this diagonal tuple belongs to the idele group.
The diagonal multiplicative group of a number field is discrete in its idele group. Require local units at every finite place and an archimedean neighbourhood of one. A diagonal element meeting these restrictions has integral . If , its nonzero integer field norm cannot have absolute value less than one, while sufficiently small archimedean differences would force exactly that.
The map from an idele to its finite-place fractional ideal is surjective, has kernel the product of the infinite multiplicative groups and finite-place unit groups, and sends diagonal elements to principal fractional ideals. It realizes the ideal class group as the corresponding quotient of the idele group.
The idelic modulus is the product of normalized local moduli: ordinary real modulus, squared complex modulus and at finite places. This continuous homomorphism to has the diagonal multiplicative group in its kernel by the product formula. It differs from the idele norm, which maps between idele groups of field extensions.
The norm-one idele group is the kernel of the idelic modulus. Its quotient by the diagonal is compact for a number field and surjects onto the ideal class group.
An idele is an element of the idele group: a tuple of nonzero elements of the completion of a valued field at all places, with finite-place components in the local unit groups except at finitely many places.
The idele topology is the restricted product topology with respect to . It is also the subspace topology induced by from .
The idele class group is , where is embedded diagonally.
For a modulus of a number field , form a subgroup of the idele group as follows. At a finite prime dividing with exponent , use ; at every other finite prime, use . At a real place selected by , use , and at every other infinite place use the entire multiplicative completion.
The image of in the idèle class group is the idelic congruence subgroup . Its quotient is the ray class group. The unit requirement outside the modulus is essential: allowing arbitrary valuations at those primes would discard ideal-class information. Multiplication by a principal idele accounts for changing a global generator while preserving its ideal class.
For a finite abelian extension , the norm group is the image of the idele-class norm . Class field theory gives .
The -component of the idele norm is . It descends to an idèle class group norm .
For a finite Galois extension with group , the kernel of the global reciprocity map is . It follows that this norm group equals the norm group from the maximal abelian subextension .

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