The unit-norm obstruction for ambiguous ideal classes. Equal obstructions yield classes differing by a class represented by an invariant fractional ideal. The representatives can be chosen once, so the fiber argument does not need a preliminary choice-independent description of the obstruction homomorphism.
The unit-norm quotient in a quadratic extension is finite, with a uniform bound depending only on the base-field degree. Squares of base units are norms of their extensions.
For a quadratic extension K / F of number fields, the unit-norm quotient is finite.
For a quadratic extension K / F of number fields, the unit-norm quotient has order at most
2 ^ [F : ℚ].
Classes represented by invariant invertible fractional ideals.
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An ideal class is strongly ambiguous if and only if it is the class of a σ-invariant
invertible fractional ideal.
Equality of the concrete unit obstructions places the quotient of two represented classes in the strongly ambiguous subgroup.