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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 2 20G c Solution by
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Put and . The maximal real subfield of the fifth cyclotomic field is . The roots of unity in a rational cyclotomic field show that the roots of unity in are exactly .
Let . For every embedding ,Thus the kernel of the logarithmic unit embedding implies that is a root of unity. Since conjugation acts trivially modulo the prime element , we have . Among the tenth roots of unity this excludes the elements , so . Squaring is a bijection on this group of order five, so choose a root of unity with . Then is fixed by conjugation and is therefore a unit of .
The units of the quadratic field Q square root of five are , where . Absorbing the sign and into proves
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