The trace of an element in a quadratic extension is the sum of it with its conjugate. Is there a name for the difference between it and its conjugate?
In a quadratic extension, does the orthogonal complement of trace have a nice name?
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0Sorry. It's _a_ square root of the discriminant. – 2012-08-18