Let be a number field. Its places consist of its real embeddings, conjugate pairs of complex embeddings, and the finite places associated with nonzero prime ideals of its ring of integers of a number field. At a real or complex place use the usual absolute value. If lies over the prime number with ramification index , normalize its absolute value byThese normalizations extend the standard absolute values on .
Write for the local degree of a place. Thus is at a real place, at a complex place, and at a finite place. The Absolute multiplicative Weil height isThe product formula shows that this is unchanged when is replaced by a larger number field containing .
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