The Hilbert symbol of a unit and a uniformizer #
Over a nonarchimedean local field of odd residue characteristic, the Hilbert symbol of an integral unit and a uniformizer is the quadratic character of the unit's residue. The unramified quadratic class detects the nonsquare residue class, while squares have positive symbol. This calculation is one of the three values determining the local symbol on square classes.
References #
- J.-P. Serre, A Course in Arithmetic, Chapter III, §1, Theorem 1.
- O. T. O'Meara, Introduction to Quadratic Forms, §63:11.
The residue field is finite for the quadratic character calculation.
Instances For
The symbol of a unit and an element of odd valuation is positive exactly when the unit has square residue, in odd residue characteristic.
The unit–odd-valuation symbol equals the quadratic residue character of the reduced unit.
The symbol of a unit and a uniformizer is positive exactly when the unit has square residue. This is the unit–uniformizer entry of the Hilbert-symbol table in odd residue characteristic.
The unit–uniformizer symbol equals the quadratic residue character of the reduced unit.
For a valuation-zero element of Kˣ, the unit–uniformizer symbol is positive exactly
when that element is a square, in odd residue characteristic.
The sign of the quadratic character of the reduction of an integral unit.
Instances For
The sign is one exactly when the reduced unit is a square.
As an integer, the residue sign is the usual quadratic character.
The residue sign is multiplicative on integral units.
The residue sign of one is one.
The residue sign of an inverse is the inverse sign.
The residue sign of an integer power is the corresponding power of the sign.
The sign is the Hilbert symbol against any uniformizer.
The uniformizer diagonal sign is (-1)^((q-1)/2), where q is the residue cardinality.