Solution

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The cyclotomic polynomial is
where is primitive. Partitioning all th roots by exact order gives the cyclotomic factorization
Induct on . The quotient of the monic integer polynomial by the product of the already constructed monic , , lies in and is monic. Gauss lemma then shows that this quotient lies in .
If the prime does not divide , then over ,
Thus has no repeated root. Every factor, including the reduction of , is square-free, proving the Separability of a cyclotomic polynomial modulo p.

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