Ray class field
（重定向自Ray class group）
In mathematics, a ray class field is an abelian extension of a global field associated with a ray class group of ideal classes or idele classes. Every finite abelian extension of a number field is contained in one of its ray class fields.
The term "ray class group" is a translation of the German term "Strahlklassengruppe". Here "Strahl" is the German for a ray, and often means the positive real line, which appears in the positivity conditions defining ray class groups. Hasse (1926, p.6) uses "Strahl" to mean a certain group of ideals defined using positivity conditions, and uses "Strahlklasse" to mean a coset of this group.