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ID: past-exam-of-the-number-theory-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2010/a/2/iv/solution
Past exam of the number theory course of the University of Oxford 2010 A 2 iv Solution by
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Let and . The roots of are , so . This splitting extension is separable in characteristic zero, hence Galois over . The subextension is itself Galois by part (iii), so restriction gives a surjectionwith normal kernel . Surjectivity follows from the extension theorem for embeddings and normality of .
For , write . This defines an injective homomorphism : injectivity holds because , and multiplicativity holds because fixes all roots of unity in . A subgroup of a cyclic group is cyclic. The first isomorphism theorem therefore givesThere is no need to assume that ; the intersection with the cyclotomic field can reduce its order.
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