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ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2022/iii/paper-125/4/a/solution
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 125 4 a Solution by
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Let . If becomes an th power in , choose with . Thenis a cocycle with values in the finite group . Changing changes it by a coboundary, and its class is trivial exactly when was already an th power in . Thus the kernel injects into the finite group and is finite. This is the multiplicative case of the finite-extension kernel of a Kummer map.
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