Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-options-i-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2009/a/a1/ii/solution

Write . The second polynomial is . Negating the roots of a polynomial does not change the field generated by them: each original root is minus a new root, and conversely. Hence this splitting field is again and its field extension degree is six. Equivalently, it is the cyclotomic field , since .

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