Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-101/5/c/i/solution

Let and . By the Chinese remainder theorem, , so .
If a positive-degree monomial contains both and with , then it vanishes: Bezout identity gives , while both and annihilate that monomial. Thus the degree- component for is
and every summand has length one. Hence every has length , including , and
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