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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 ii Paper 1 18H a Solution by
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For roots , the discriminant isand for ,If is irreducible, its Galois group is transitive in : it is when is a square in , and otherwise. If has one root in and an irreducible quadratic factor, the group is ; if it splits, it is trivial. A repeated-root depressed cubic already has all roots in , so adds no case.
For , the rational-root test proves irreducibility andis not a rational square. Thus . By the fundamental theorem of Galois theory, the complete subfield list iswhere the three cubic fields fix the three order-two subgroups and the quadratic field fixes .
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