Category:Characterization of P-adic Unit has Square Root in P-adic Units

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Let $\Z_p$ be the $p$-adic integers for some prime $p \ne 2$.

Let $Z_p^\times$ be the set of $p$-adic units.

Let $u \in Z_p^\times$ be a $p$-adic unit.

Let $u = c_0 + c_1p + c_2p^2 + \ldots$ be the $p$-adic expansion of $u$.

The following statements are equivalent::

$(1)\quad \exists x \in \Z_p^\times : x^2 = u$

$(2)\quad c_0$ is a quadratic residue of $p$

$(3)\quad \exists y \in \Z_p : y^2 \equiv u \pmod{p\Z_p}$