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Irreducibility by degree-preserving reduction modulo a prime

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Let f∈Z[X] be primitive polynomial and let p be a prime number not dividing its leading coefficient. If its coefficientwise reduction is irreducible in Fp​[X], then f is irreducible in Q[X]. Indeed, a rational factorization would give an integer factorization by Gauss's lemma. The leading coefficients of both factors remain nonzero modulo p, so reduction preserves their positive degrees, contradicting irreducibility of the reduction. For monic polynomials the leading-coefficient condition is automatic.

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