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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ii Paper 4 18H i Solution by
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The irreducible cubic is separable, and its Galois group acts transitively on its three roots. The only transitive subgroups of areFor the cycle , the Lagrange resolvent for a cubic obeys . A transposition interchanging sends to . Since , these scalars are fixed by every automorphism. Thus the two possibilities for the image set areThese are descriptions of sets, so coincident values or a zero resolvent are not being asserted distinct.
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