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Past exam of the galois theory course of the University of Oxford 2023 1 c i Solution by
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Irreducibility of the cyclotomic polynomial gives . The extension is Galois, since is the splitting field of in characteristic zero. The injection in part (a) is consequently an isomorphism, and the Chinese remainder theorem givesThe Fundamental theorem of Galois theory identifies proper intermediate fields strictly above with proper nontrivial subgroups. Such subgroups have order two or four. The two-torsion subgroup is , with three nonidentity elements and hence three order-two subgroups. There are also three order-four subgroups: they are the kernels of the three nonzero group homomorphisms . Distinct such maps have distinct kernels because the target has only one nonidentity element. Therefore
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