Incipit of chapter VI of Neukirch's ANT book.

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The title of the chapter VI of the neukirch's ANT is "Global class field theory", and the first few lines are the following:

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the author doesn't explain what is $K$ here, but from the previous definitions it seems that $K$ has to be a number field. So, with this restriction we are not considering all global fields but only the finite extensions of $\mathbb Q$. Why doesn't the author give the definition of adele for any global field? Is it an arbitrary choice?

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Adeles and idèles can be defined for any global field. See e.g. chapter 2, "Global Fields", of Cassels-Fröhlich's book "Algebraic Number Theory" , Academic Press, 1967