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Past exam of the options II course of the University of Oxford 2009 A A2 ii Solution by
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Define for every . In characteristic , all intermediate binomial coefficients vanish, so ; multiplicativity and preservation of one are immediate. If , then and the field property gives . Thus this field homomorphism is injective, and finiteness makes it surjective. It is therefore a field automorphism, sending to as required.
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