Cyclotomic field

ID: cyclotomic-field

Cyclotomic field by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A cyclotomic field is generated by a root of unity. If and is primitive, every -conjugate of is a power and already lies in . Thus is Galois, and its Galois group embeds in , so it is abelian.

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