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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 21 1 5 Solution by
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Put , choose a -basis of , and let be its reduced norm polynomial. For , considerThis has degree and variables. The property gives a nontrivial zero . Necessarily : otherwise forces in the division algebra, making the whole coordinate vector zero. Homogeneity now gives . The value zero is achieved by the zero element. HenceThis is the surjectivity of reduced norms over C2 fields, and the proof also gives the multiplicative surjection . The argument works for degree one as well.
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