Solution

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

The splitting field is the smallest subfield of containing and all the roots of a polynomial under consideration. Equivalently it is generated over by those roots, and the polynomial splits there into linear factors.
Put . All sixth roots of unity are powers of , so the required splitting field is
Indeed , and conversely . Its field extension degree is two.

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