Bill Allombert on Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:46:08 +0100


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Re: deciding whether two padic extensions are isomorphic


On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 09:27:44PM +0000, John Cremona wrote:
> In your example, could you not also check whether -3 and 2 are both squares
> in each of the fields?

Certainly, but that would require a way to factor polynomials over extensions of
Q_p which is not available in gp. 
Hence the round-about solution I offer.

Cheers,
Bill.