A2

ID: past-exam-of-the-probability-statistics-and-options-ii-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2009/a/a2

The characteristic is the least positive integer with , if it exists, and zero otherwise. The prime subfield is the smallest subfield containing ; in characteristic it is . Every field automorphism fixes and addition, so it fixes every element of this prime subfield.

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