Counting biquadratic number fields with quaternionic and dihedral extensions

Abstract

We establish asymptotic formulae for the number of biquadratic number fields of bounded discriminant that can be embedded into a quaternionic or a dihedral extension. To prove these results, we express the solvability of these inverse Galois problems in terms of Hilbert symbols, and then apply a method of Heath-Brown to bound sums of linked quadratic characters.