Let be a primitive fifth root of unity. Over , the Frobenius automorphism acts by , so the splitting field of has degree equal to the multiplicative order of modulo . Its Galois group is generated by Frobenius and is cyclic. The possible orders are therefore for , for , and for .
Put . The polynomial satisfies the Eisenstein criterion at , so . Also . The intersection of these two fields has degree dividing both and , hence is . Since the splitting field is ,
Label the five roots by , . The Galois group acts through the affine group over a finite field:
Its possible nontrivial cycle types are , , and ; in particular, no element has a three-cycle. By the Dedekind factorization cycle test, the reduction of modulo any prime therefore has no irreducible cubic factor.
The multiplier of the Frobenius element is . If or , then has order four; every affine map with this multiplier has one fixed point and one four-cycle. Hence is a product of a linear factor and an irreducible quartic. If , Frobenius is a translation : it is the identity when , giving complete splitting, and is a five-cycle when , giving an irreducible polynomial.
Take
and let . Take
the affine group over a finite field, and let be its translation subgroup. Both normal subgroups have order , and
The groups are not isomorphic: is abelian, while is nonabelian.
For , let
Then . The fixed field of its subgroup of order three is its unique quadratic subfield,
Let
the splitting field of . Its Galois group is . The normal subgroup fixes the quadratic discriminant field, so
Now let . Part (a), with , supplies a cyclic Galois extension with group . For , take the splitting field
of . The prime is unramified in , so at every prime ideal above its valuation is one. It cannot therefore be a th power in the cyclotomic field. Hence
The automorphisms
and, for ,
satisfy
They generate all automorphisms, proving
This is the affine Galois group of the splitting field of x to the p minus two.