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The 13 pages that link to Class field theory, each with the reason it gives.
Ideal class groupRelated: Ideal classes describe abelian extensions through reciprocity maps.
Emil ArtinRelated: Artin’s reciprocity law became a central theorem of the subject.
Langlands programRelated: It provides the abelian reciprocity law that Langlands theory generalizes.
Algebraic number fieldRelated: It links the field's ideal arithmetic to its abelian extensions.
Helmut HasseRelated: Hasse helped develop its local and global formulations.
Class number formulaRelated: Class groups in the formula also encode unramified abelian extensions.
Serge LangRelated: Lang’s early research and textbook helped develop and explain this central area.