Let 
be a number ring of degree 
with 
imaginary embeddings. Then every ideal
class of 
contains an ideal 
such that
 |
where 
denotes the norm of 
.
Minkowski's Lemma
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References
Marcus, D. A. Number Fields, 3rd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, p. 137, 1996.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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