A note on unramified quadratic extensions over algebraic number fields (Q1587881)

Let \(p\) be a prime, \(K\) a number field containing a primitive \(p\)-th root of unity, and \(L/K\) a cyclic unramified extension of degree \(p\). It is known from work of L.~Childs and the author that \(L/K\) has a power integral basis if it has a normal integral basis. In this paper, the author constructs infinitely many counter examples for the converse statement by proving that for each \(n \geq 3\), there exist infinitely many number fields \(K\) of degree \(n\) admitting an unramified quadratic extension \(L/K\) such that \(L/K\) has a power integral basis but no normal integral basis.