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The Jacobi symbol is of great importance in the study of quadratic fields. For cyclotomic extensions or more general Abelian extensions, the role of the Jacobi symbol is played by characters.
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Ribenboim, P. (2001). Characters and Gaussian Sums. In: Classical Theory of Algebraic Numbers. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21690-4_21
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