On the fourth power level of $\mathfrak{p}$-adic completions of biquadratic number fields

Abstract

Let $K$ be a number field and $\mathfrak{p}\mid (2)$ be a prime ideal. We compute the fourth level of the $\mathfrak{p}$-adic completions of $K$ when the ramification index is $4$ and the inertial degree is trivial for the ideal $\mathfrak{p}$. This enables the computation of the fourth level of any $\mathfrak{p}$-adic completion of any quartic number field. Here we apply this result to biquadratic number fields and obtain lower bounds for the fourth level of such number fields.

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