I think it should be the ring of integers in the base field, and that the
doctest in number_field_rel.py is documenting current behavior.
David


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Alex Ghitza <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The 5-year old ticket #4738 says "the base ring of an order in a
> relative number field should be the ring of integers of the base field
> of the relative number field".  This contradicts a doctest in
> number_field_rel.py which explicitly says "The base ring of an order
> in a relative extension is still `\ZZ`".
>
> Can we pick one of these two behaviors?  What do *you* expect the last
> ring below to be?
>
> sage: K.<a, b, c> = QQ[2^(1/2), 2^(1/3), 3^(1/2)]
> sage: R = K.order([a, b, c])
> sage: R
> Relative Order in Number Field in sqrt2 with defining polynomial x^2 -
> 2 over its base field
> sage: K.base_field()
> Number Field in a with defining polynomial x^3 - 2 over its base field
> sage: R.base_ring()
>
>
> --
> Best,
> Alex
>
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