Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-algebra-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2007/a/4/iv/solution

In the cyclic quotient , the kernel is formed by residue classes of polynomials such that . If , coprimality forces , so the kernel is zero. If , divisibility is equivalent to , and the residue classes of multiples of modulo form a one-dimensional -space. Hence
This too is immediately readable in the cyclic case, even if zero is a repeated root. The zero-dimensional module has kernel dimension zero separately.

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