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Past exam of the number theory course of the University of Oxford 2010 A 2 iii Solution by
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The cyclotomic polynomial isBy the allowed irreducibility, this is the minimal polynomial of and its degree is . The field contains every th root of unity and is the splitting field of . This polynomial has no repeated roots in characteristic zero, so the extension is Galois.
An automorphism sends to another primitive root , where is a unit modulo . Conversely each such conjugate defines an embedding, and it is an automorphism of because has an inverse modulo . Composition corresponds to multiplication of exponents. Therefore
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