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Past exam of the probability, statistics and options I course of the University of Oxford 2009 A 1 ii Solution by
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Replacing by in the irreducible polynomial from part (i) gives . This substitution is an invertible automorphism of , so it preserves irreducibility. The roots are the primitive eighteenth roots, and the splitting field is . They are all powers of one such root, so its irreducible degree-six polynomial givesIn fact this is the same field as in part (i): and .
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