Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2025/iii/paper-101/3/iii/solution

Let
Certainly , so . Conversely, cubing the second generator shows that contains , while multiplying the first generator by shows that it contains . The ideals generated by and are comaximal ideals, so a polynomial combination of the two polynomials is . Multiplication by gives , hence . Therefore
generated by the single polynomial .
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