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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 89 2 ii Solution by
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Assume . Every has a unique th root in : existence is the field inclusion and uniqueness follows from injectivity of the Frobenius endomorphism in a field. Since , this root satisfies the monic polynomial over . Because is an integrally closed domain, this gives . The identitiesand uniqueness show thatis a ring homomorphism.
On the rule sends a fraction to the fraction of its unique roots. Since , inverting is equivalent to inverting , so the rule localizes. Also, for a prime , exactly when ; hence the induced point map agrees with that of . The localized rules consequently glue to a morphism . Its pullback followed by the Frobenius endomorphism sends to , which provesIf another morphism satisfies this equation, it has the same point map because the Absolute Frobenius morphism fixes points, and its pullback of must be a th root of in the normal domain . That root is unique. Thus is unique.
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