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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 ii Paper 4 18H c Solution by
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Takeand let . Takethe affine group over a finite field, and let be its translation subgroup. Both normal subgroups have order , andThe groups are not isomorphic: is abelian, while is nonabelian.
Letthe splitting field of . Its Galois group is . The normal subgroup fixes the quadratic discriminant field, so
Now let . Part (a), with , supplies a cyclic Galois extension with group . For , take the splitting fieldof . The prime is unramified in , so at every prime ideal above its valuation is one. It cannot therefore be a th power in the cyclotomic field. HenceThe automorphismsand, for ,satisfyThey generate all automorphisms, provingThis is the affine Galois group of the splitting field of x to the p minus two.
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