Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 24 2 b iii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
True. Put . Every fixes , permutes the polynomial's polynomial roots, and is an isometry by the uniqueness proved in part (a). ThereforeThe strict inequalities single out as the unique closest polynomial root, so for every . The Fundamental theorem of Galois theory then givesThis closest-root descent in a Galois extension is the relevant form of Krasner's lemma. If polynomial roots repeat, the strict hypothesis excludes a second occurrence of ; otherwise the same argument applies unchanged.