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Past exam of the number theory course of the University of Oxford 2009 A 2 c iii Solution by
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The nonzero cubes modulo thirteen are , which excludes three. Thus this cubic has no root in its base field and is irreducible. For a root , the extension has degree three. The base field already contains the primitive cube root of unity , since and . Hence the other two roots are and , already in this extension, making it the full splitting field.
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