The square class of is its image in the square-class group of a field . Two nonzero elements have the same square class exactly when their quotient is a square. Every element of this quotient has order dividing . Over the rational numbers, a square class has a unique signed squarefree integer representative.
For odd , parity of valuation and the square class of the unit residue give a group , represented by for a unit with nonsquare residue. For , valuation parity and unit residue modulo eight give , with generators . The unit criteria follow from the Hensel lemma, using its strong derivative version for .
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