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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 3 18I d Solution by
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Choose a primitive root . Since every root of is a power of , its splitting field is . Each sends to another primitive root, uniquely of the formThe assignment is a homomorphism. It is injective because an automorphism fixing fixes .
If is irreducible over , the orbit of has all primitive roots, so the injection has image of size and is surjective. Conversely, surjectivity makes every primitive root a conjugate of . Its minimal polynomial over then has at least roots and divides the degree- polynomial , so it equals . This proves the Galois embedding for a cyclotomic polynomial and the claimed equivalence.
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