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For a finite abelian extension of number fields, its relative discriminant ideal is the product of the finite conductor ideals of the characters of its Galois group, with the trivial character contributing one. In a multiquadratic extension of $\mathbb{Q}$, the nontrivial characters correspond to its quadratic subfields, and their conductors are the absolute values of the corresponding fundamental discriminants. This gives an efficient discriminant computation and can prove that a compositum is unramified over a quadratic subfield.

Put $t=\sqrt{-30}$ and $K=\mathbb{Q}(t)$. The ring of integers is $\mathbb{Z}[t]$, and the fundamental discriminant is $D_K=-120$. For a reduced positive definite binary quadratic form $(a,b,c)$ of discriminant $-120$, reduction givesThe coefficient $b$ is even; checking $1\le a\le 6$ and $|b|\le a$, with the usual nonnegative sign choice at boundary equalities, leaves preciselyThe correspondence between proper quadratic forms and ideal classes therefore gives $h_K=4$. All four classes equal their inverses, since inversion replaces $b$ by $-b$. HenceThe three nontrivial classes may be represented by the ramified prime ideals ${\mathfrak{p}}_2=(2,t)$, ${\mathfrak{p}}_3=(3,t)$ and ${\mathfrak{p}}_5=(5,t)$. They square to principal ideals and satisfy ${\mathfrak{p}}_2{\mathfrak{p}}_3{\mathfrak{p}}_5=(t)$. None is principal: an integral generator of norm $2$, $3$ or $5$ would require $a^2+30b^2$ to equal that number, which is impossible. The relation then makes the three classes distinct, consistently with the four-form calculation.

ConsiderThe three rational square classes are independent, so $[H:\mathbb{Q}]=8$. Their radical product is $\sqrt{-30}$, so $K\subset H$ and $[H:K]=4$; the extension $H/K$ is abelian. To verify that it is unramified, rather than assuming that radical adjunctions are harmless at $2,3,5$, use the conductor-discriminant formula. The seven quadratic subfields have fundamental discriminantsThe formula givesThe discriminant tower identity now givesThus the relative discriminant is the unit ideal and no finite prime ramifies. The base has no real places, so there is no infinite ramification to check. This unramified abelian degree-four extension has degree $h_K$, and part (i) provesThis is the Hilbert class field of Q of square root minus thirty.

Next translate prime representation into an ideal class. For $p\nmid 30$, we claimIf a representation exists, $\alpha =2x+yt$ lies in ${\mathfrak{p}}_2$ and has $N_{K/\mathbb{Q}}\alpha =2p$. The integral ideal $(\alpha ){\mathfrak{p}}_2^{-1}$ has norm $p$, so it is a prime ideal $\mathfrak{P}$. Its class is $[{\mathfrak{p}}_2{]}^{-1}=[{\mathfrak{p}}_2]$. Conversely, if $[\mathfrak{P}]=[{\mathfrak{p}}_2]$, the product ${\mathfrak{p}}_2\mathfrak{P}$ is principal, say $(\alpha )$. Since this ideal lies in ${\mathfrak{p}}_2$, its generator has the form $\alpha =2x+yt$ with integers $x,y$. Taking norms gives $4x^2+30y^2=2p$, proving the reverse implication. This is prime representation via an ideal class, and it proves sufficiency as well as necessity.

Identify the required class in $\mathrm{Gal}(H/K)$ through the Artin map. We can use the explicit representation $17=2+15$: $2+t$ has norm $34$, so the prime above $17$ obtained from $(2+t){\mathfrak{p}}_2^{-1}$ has class $[{\mathfrak{p}}_2]$. Its Frobenius in the multiquadratic extension acts on the three radicals with signsTheir product is one, so this automorphism fixes $K$. Because $H/\mathbb{Q}$ is abelian, for any unramified rational prime $p$ that splits in $K$, the Frobenius at either prime of $K$ of norm $p$ is its rational Frobenius restricted to $H/K$. The Artin isomorphism therefore makes the required class condition equivalent toConversely, these signs already imply splitting in $K$, since their product is $(\frac{-30}{p})=1$. No extra splitting condition is missing.

The supplementary law for $2$, quadratic reciprocity for $-3$ and $5$, and then the Chinese remainder theorem turn these sign conditions intoTheir four simultaneous residue classes modulo $120$ are $17,23,47,113$. Finally, $2$ is represented by $(x,y)=(\pm 1,0)$, whereas $3$ and $5$ cannot be represented: $y\ne 0$ gives a value at least $15$, and $y=0$ gives twice a square. We have proved the complete criterion

The three quadratic subfields are $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-2})$, $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-3})$ and $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{6})$, with respective fundamental discriminants $-8,-3,24$. Their associated quadratic Dirichlet characters are the Kronecker symbolsThe regular representation of $C_2\times C_2$ is the direct sum of the trivial character and these three nontrivial characters. At an unramified prime the character is the sign by which Frobenius automorphism acts on the square root defining its quadratic subfield; at a ramified prime the linear character has no inertia group invariants. The local factor of an Artin L-function consequently givesThe zero values of a quadratic Dirichlet character at conductor primes mean that its local factor is one, not that the whole Artin L-function vanishes there.

Only the rational primes $2,3,5,7$ can contribute to coefficients with index at most ten. Their character values areFor the odd unramified primes these entries follow by checking squares: modulo five, both $-8$ and $-3$ are the nonsquare $2$, while $24$ is the square $4$; modulo seven they are respectively $6,4,3$. At $3$, $-8\equiv 1$ is a square. At $2$, the $-3$ character is $-1$ because the integral quadratic generator has polynomial $X^2+X+1$, irreducible modulo two. The other entries at $2$ and $3$ are zero exactly where the corresponding fundamental discriminant is divisible by that prime. This verifies every local factor, including the ramified ones.

The Euler product makes $a_n$ a multiplicative arithmetic function. Expanding the first two factors givesTherefore $a_2=0$, $a_4=1$, $a_8=0$, $a_3=2$ and $a_9=3$. Both factors for $5$ and $7$ have zero coefficient of $T$, so $a_5=a_7=0$. Multiplicativity gives $a_6=a_2{a}_3=0$ and $a_{10}=a_2{a}_5=0$, while $a_1=1$. The answer isAs an arithmetic check, the regular representation Artin L-function is the Dedekind zeta function of $F$. The local factors say there is one prime of norm four above two and two primes of norm three above three. Their powers give respectively one ideal of norm four and three ideals of norm nine, matching the nonzero coefficients above.

Write an integral binary quadratic form as $Q(u,v)=A{u}^2+Buv+C{v}^2$, with discriminant of a binary quadratic form $d=B^2-4AC$. If $Q(u,v)=p$ is prime, then $\gcd (u,v)=1$: any common divisor would have its square dividing $p$. Complete $(u,v)$ to a matrix in ${\mathrm{SL}}_2(\mathbb{Z})$ using Bezout identity. After the associated integral change of variables, the properly equivalent form has leading coefficient $p$, say $[p,b,c]$. Its discriminant of a binary quadratic form gives $d=b^2-4pc$, hence $b^2\equiv d(\mathrm{mod}p)$.

Conversely suppose $b_0^2\equiv d(\mathrm{mod}p)$. Since $d$ is an integral-form discriminant of a binary quadratic form, $d\equiv 0$ or $1(\mathrm{mod}4)$. Choose $b\equiv b_0(\mathrm{mod}p)$ with even integer parity for $d\equiv 0(\mathrm{mod}4)$ and odd integer parity for $d\equiv 1(\mathrm{mod}4)$. This is possible because $p$ is odd. Then $b^2-d$ is divisible by $4p$, andis an integral form of discriminant of a binary quadratic form $d$ representing $p=Q(1,0)$. This proves the discriminant criterion for prime representation by a binary quadratic form, including the case $p\mid d$; no assumption that $d$ is a fundamental discriminant was used.

For $K=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-163})$, the fundamental discriminant is $-163$ and the Minkowski bound for ideal classes isThus every ideal class contains an integral ideal of norm at most eight.

The ring of integers of a quadratic field is $\mathbb{Z}[\theta ]$ for $\theta =(1+\sqrt{-163})/2$, whose minimal polynomial is $X^2-X+41$. Its discriminant $-163$ is a quadratic nonresidue modulo each of $3,5,$ and $7$; directly modulo two, $X^2+X+1$ has no root. Hence these primes are inert by the splitting of rational primes in a quadratic field. The only prime ideal over one of them with norm at most eight is $(2)$, which has norm four and is principal. Unique prime ideal factorization now makes every ideal of norm at most eight principal. The Minkowski bound therefore provesThis is the Ideal class group of Q of square root of minus one hundred sixty-three.

Put $K=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-6})$. Its fundamental discriminant is $-24$. The Minkowski bound for ideal classes isso every ideal class contains an integral ideal of norm $1$, $2$ or $3$. The primes above $2$ and $3$ are ramified, their classes have order at most two, andshows that they represent the same class. This class is nontrivial because the norm form $a^2+6b^2$ does not represent $2$. Hence

Now let $H=K(\sqrt{2})=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{2},\sqrt{-3})$. The discriminant of a biquadratic field is the product of the discriminants of its three quadratic subfields, soThe relative discriminant ${\mathfrak{D}}_{H/K}$ therefore has norm one, proving that $H/K$ is unramified at every finite prime. Since $[H:K]=2=|\mathrm{Cl}(K)|$, the Hilbert class field of Q of square root minus six is

Suppose that $L/\mathbb{Q}$ were a Finite Galois extension with Galois group $S_3$ and unramified away from $7$. Its quadratic subfield is the fixed field of the alternating subgroup $A_3$. A quadratic field ramified only at $7$ must be $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-7})$: the classification by fundamental discriminants shows that $-7$ is the only nontrivial quadratic discriminant supported at $7$. In particular, $7$ ramifies in this quadratic subfield.

Because $7$ does not divide $|S_3|=6$, all ramification at $7$ is tame ramification. Its inertia group is therefore cyclic. Its image in $S_3/A_3\simeq C_2$ is nontrivial because the quadratic subfield is ramified, so the inertia group is generated by a transposition and has order two; it cannot have order six because it is cyclic.

The discriminant exponent of a tame Galois extension is thereforeThere is no other finite ramification, so $|d_L|=7^3=343$.

On the other hand, the Minkowski bound for ideal classes implies the Minkowski lower bound for a number-field discriminantSince $0\le r_2\le 3$, the right side is smallest at $r_2=3$ and is greater than $980$. This contradicts $|d_L|=343$, so no such extension exists.