For a Finite Galois extension and a finite-dimensional -space with a semilinear action of its Galois group, the map is an isomorphism. The vectors are invariant and span by the Artin independence theorem. Choosing an invariant -basis then identifies the invariant space with its -span. The proof does not divide by the extension degree.
Suppose that were a Finite Galois extension with Galois group and unramified away from . Its quadratic subfield is the fixed field of the alternating subgroup . A quadratic field ramified only at must be : the classification by fundamental discriminants shows that is the only nontrivial quadratic discriminant supported at . In particular, ramifies in this quadratic subfield.
Because does not divide , all ramification at is tame ramification. Its inertia group is therefore cyclic. Its image in is nontrivial because the quadratic subfield is ramified, so the inertia group is generated by a transposition and has order two; it cannot have order six because it is cyclic.
The discriminant exponent of a tame Galois extension is therefore
There is no other finite ramification, so .
On the other hand, the Minkowski bound for ideal classes implies the Minkowski lower bound for a number-field discriminant
Since , the right side is smallest at and is greater than . This contradicts , so no such extension exists.
The seventh cyclotomic polynomial is
It is irreducible over , and all its roots , , lie in . Hence is a degree-six Finite Galois extension, with
The group is cyclic of order six; for example,
By the Galois correspondence, the subfields are the fixed fields of the four subgroups of :
Thus these are all the subfields.
For the Quadratic Gaussian period in the seventh cyclotomic field, put
The cyclotomic relation gives , while direct multiplication gives . Hence
Its discriminant is , so
For the real cubic subfield of the seventh cyclotomic field, divide
by . With ,
so
This cubic has no rational root, and therefore
The requested primitive elements, minimal polynomials, and automorphism groups are consequently
More explicitly, the nontrivial automorphism of sends
and the three automorphisms of cyclically permute
Finally, is abelian, so every subgroup is normal. The subextensions of an abelian Galois extension theorem shows that
Assume and put . All roots of are with , so is its splitting field and is a Finite Galois extension. The map
is an injective group homomorphism.
The Artin–Wedderburn theorem says that every central simple algebra over has the form for a finite-dimensional central division algebra , uniquely up to the evident data. If and are central simple, extend scalars to an algebraic closure . Both become full matrix algebras, hence
for suitable . Any nonzero proper ideal of would extend to one in this simple matrix algebra, and faithful flatness prevents it from vanishing or becoming the whole algebra. The same scalar-extension argument shows that the center is . This proves the tensor product of central simple algebras theorem.
The Brauer group consists of Morita equivalence classes of central simple -algebras. Its product is , its identity is , and because is a full matrix algebra.
Let be a Finite Galois extension with Galois group , and let be a normalized two-cocycle. The crossed-product algebra of a Galois extension has underlying left -vector space
and multiplication
The cocycle identity is exactly associativity. After scalar extension to , the algebra acts by the twisted regular representation and becomes ; Galois descent shows that it is central simple over . If is multiplied by the coboundary of a one-cochain , rescaling by gives an isomorphic algebra. Hence the cohomological construction of a Brauer class gives a well-defined map
It remains to show that every Brauer class is torsion. For a finite group , restriction and corestriction on normalized bar cochains satisfy
on cohomology: the first equality follows by summing the translated cochain over coset representatives, and each is the identity because an inner automorphism is cochain-homotopic to the identity. Restriction to the trivial subgroup is zero in positive degree, so this proves that finite-group cohomology is annihilated by the group order. In multiplicative notation, every therefore satisfies .
By the permitted assumption, is the image of such an for some . Consequently in . By the definition of Brauer equivalence, this says that for some ,
as required.
Assume now that is irreducible and separable. Its splitting field is Galois, and its Galois group acts transitively on the roots by the Galois group of a polynomial. Part (c) extends every such automorphism uniquely to . If , the extension sends to the unique th root above the image of . The transitivity lifted through unique pth roots therefore shows that
acts transitively on the roots of .
Every automorphism of preserves , because is the splitting field of over . Transitivity therefore implies that either all roots lie in or none does. Since , the minimal polynomial of a purely inseparable element has degree either one or . Consequently,
Let be a monic irreducible factor of . If is inseparable, part (a) gives
for a nonconstant monic . Since divides , polynomial division in and substitution show that divides . Irreducibility of forces , hence . Therefore
which is the irreducible factors after Frobenius substitution dichotomy.
If every coefficient of is a th power, say
then
so is reducible.
Conversely, suppose is reducible and factor it into distinct monic irreducibles:
Every is then a proper factor, hence separable by the preceding dichotomy. Since , unique factorization and force for every . Thus for some monic . The Frobenius endomorphism raises coefficients to their th powers, and the coefficient of in is the coefficient of in . Hence every coefficient of is a th power in . We have proved the reducibility criterion after Frobenius substitution:
Let and normalize . In lower numbering,
These are the ramification groups; is the inertia group and is the wild inertia group.
Because , every is for some . The polynomial identity has integral coefficients. Consequently the inequality for implies it for every , and the converse follows by taking . Therefore
Since is a Finite Galois extension, the minimal polynomial factors as
Differentiating and evaluating at gives
and hence
For a fixed nonidentity , its valuation is exactly the number of integers for which . Interchanging the two finite sums proves the ramification-group sum for a monogenic integer ring:
The extension is unramified exactly when , which by this nonnegative sum is equivalent to , or . Moreover , so the term is . Equality
holds exactly when , which is exactly tame ramification.
Let and normalize . The lower ramification groups are
with . If , the same inequality defines inside , so directly
Now suppose is Finite Galois extension. The inertia group is the kernel of the action on the residue field. Restriction sends into . Conversely, the maximal unramified subextension of is the intersection of with the maximal unramified subextension of . The Galois correspondence therefore shows that the restriction image is all of .
For the explicit extension, take and a primitive cube root of unity . The polynomial is Eisenstein over , while is a ramified quadratic extension. Its splitting field
is therefore a totally ramified extension of degree six with Galois group . With , one has and , so
is a uniformizer. Let , , and let , . Then
The two nonidentity elements of have ramification number four, whereas each transposition has ramification number one. Hence
In particular, is the wild inertia group.