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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ii Paper 2 18H i Solution by
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If , the splitting field is and its Galois group is trivial, hence cyclic. Otherwise choose with . The roots are , so the splitting field is because . The roots are distinct since the characteristic does not divide , making this a Galois extension. Each automorphism satisfies with . Because that root-of-unity group is fixed by all automorphisms, . Thus is an injective homomorphism into a cyclic group. The splitting-field Galois group is cyclic, of order dividing .
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