Field Norm - Example

Example

The field norm from the complex numbers to the real numbers sends

x + iy

to

x2 + y2. This corresponds to the Galois group having two elements, the identity element which sends x + iy to itself, and complex conjugation, which sends x + iy to x − iy.

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