Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2025/iii/paper-125/3/c/solution

The Weil pairing is nondegenerate and Galois equivariant. If all of is rational over a field, pairing a basis produces a primitive cube root of unity in that field. Thus a quadratic field with full 3-torsion must contain and must equal it.
More generally, if , Frobenius acts as the identity on . Its characteristic polynomial is therefore congruent to modulo . Comparing coefficients gives
In particular with .
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