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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 136 1 c Solution by
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For odd there is a decompositioninto the valuation factor, the Teichmuller representative factor, and the group of principal units. If is a th power for every coprime to , its valuation is divisible by every such , and is therefore zero. Its residue in is a st power, hence is one. Thus .
Conversely, exponentiation by any integer coprime to is an automorphism of . This follows either from the principal-unit logarithm, under which it becomes multiplication by , or by applying the Hensel lemma to . Since is coprime to , every has a th root for every allowed .
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