Solution

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Put . If the result is immediate, so suppose with . The field norm is multiplicative, sends an element of to its th power, and commutes with powers. Therefore
Choose integers with . Then
The expression in parentheses belongs to , so is an th power in . This is coprime-degree descent for powers.

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