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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 136 4 c ii Solution by
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Suppose . For residue characteristic two, is a normal -group, embeds in , and is cyclic. The only proper nontrivial normal subgroup of is its rotation subgroup , and it has no nontrivial normal -subgroup.
Thus either or . In the first case , so part (b) would embed the noncyclic group in the cyclic group , impossible. In the second case the residue degree is , so and has order three; it cannot contain the injected group . Both cases contradict the ramification constraints, so no such extension exists.
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