 Minkowski embedding of a real quadratic field (source code)

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= Minkowski embedding of a real quadratic field

For a real quadratic field $K$ with embeddings $\sigma_1,\sigma_2$, the image
$$
\{(\sigma_1(\alpha),\sigma_2(\alpha)):\alpha\in\mathcal O_K\}
$$
is a lattice in $\mathbb R^2$ of covolume $\sqrt{|d_K|}$, and the product of the two coordinates is the field norm.

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