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is larger than although five and seven are coprime
Statement refuted
That the rational intersection theorem holds over every base field: that for every field and all positive integers with the characteristic of dividing neither,
The witness below takes , and , and realizes both splitting fields inside one fixed field of order . Since , the right-hand side is , while the intersection on the left is the common subfield .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The base field and a field of order , which exists by For every prime and , a field with elements exists. The two cyclotomic splitting fields will be identified with their base-field-isomorphic copies inside .
For , the image of in is generated by , so the degree of is the order of modulo (For the image of in is generated by ).
The intermediate fields of are exactly the for the positive divisors of , one for each divisor, with exactly when (The intermediate fields of are the , one for each positive divisor of ).
is the splitting field of over (The cyclotomic extension as a splitting field of ).
Finite fields of the same order are isomorphic by an isomorphism fixing their common prime field (Finite fields of the same order are isomorphic).
Counterexample
In , the class has order , since and no smaller positive power of is congruent to modulo . So [L1] gives , hence this splitting field has order and [L5] lets us identify it over with the unique subfield of .
In , the powers of are , so has order . Thus [L1] gives , hence this splitting field has order and [L5] lets us identify it over with the unique subfield of .
Under the fixed identifications of steps 1.1 and 1.2, both and are subfields of by [L2], since and . Their intersection is then an intermediate field of , so by [L2] it is for some divisor of . Because the intersection lies in both fields, [L2] gives and , hence ; and since lies in both fields, [L2] gives . Therefore and
Since , the right-hand side of the refuted identity is , which is just because already splits over . So the claimed equality would read , which is false.
The refuted statement therefore fails over the base field , even though the rational theorem [L3] is true.
Remarks
- Why the rational hypothesis matters. Over finite fields the intersection is controlled by the gcd of the extension degrees, not by the gcd of the orders of the roots of unity.
Depends on
- For $\gcd(n,q)=1$ the image of $\operatorname{Gal}(\mathbb F_q(\mu_n)/\mathbb F_q)$ in $(\mathbb Z/n)^\times$ is generated by $[q]$
- The intermediate fields of $\mathbb F_{q^n}/\mathbb F_q$ are the $\mathbb F_{q^d}$, one for each positive divisor $d$ of $n$
- $\mathbb Q(\mu_m)\cap\mathbb Q(\mu_n)=\mathbb Q(\mu_{\gcd(m,n)})$
- For every prime $p$ and $n\ge1$, a field with $p^n$ elements exists
- Finite fields of the same order are isomorphic
- The cyclotomic extension $K(\mu_n)$ as a splitting field of $t^{n}-1$
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Sources
- K. Conrad, Cyclotomic Extensions (expository blurb), Example 3.3 (standard reference, not scraped)
- J. S. Milne, Fields and Galois Theory, v5.10, Proposition 4.23 (standard reference, not scraped)