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F3(μ5)∩F3(μ7) is larger than F3 although five and seven are coprime

Statement refuted

That the rational intersection theorem Q(μm)∩Q(μn)=Q(μgcd⁡(m,n)) holds over every base field: that for every field K and all positive integers m,n with the characteristic of K dividing neither,

K(μm)∩K(μn)=K(μgcd⁡(m,n)).

The witness below takes K=F3, m=5 and n=7, and realizes both splitting fields inside one fixed field Ω of order 312. Since gcd⁡(5,7)=1, the right-hand side is K(μ1)=F3, while the intersection on the left is the common subfield F9⊆Ω.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The base field K=F3 and a field Ω of order 312, which exists by For every prime p and n≥1, a field with pn elements exists. The two cyclotomic splitting fields will be identified with their base-field-isomorphic copies inside Ω.

[L1]

For gcd⁡(n,q)=1, the image of Gal⁡(Fq(μn)/Fq) in (Z/n)× is generated by [q], so the degree of Fq(μn)/Fq is the order of [q] modulo n (For gcd⁡(n,q)=1 the image of Gal⁡(Fq(μn)/Fq) in (Z/n)× is generated by [q]).

[L2]

The intermediate fields of FqN/Fq are exactly the Fqd for the positive divisors d of N, one for each divisor, with Fqd⊆Fqe exactly when d∣e (The intermediate fields of Fqn/Fq are the Fqd, one for each positive divisor d of n).

[L3]

Over Q one has Q(μm)∩Q(μn)=Q(μgcd⁡(m,n)) (Q(μm)∩Q(μn)=Q(μgcd⁡(m,n))).

[L4]

K(μr) is the splitting field of tr−1 over K (The cyclotomic extension K(μn) as a splitting field of tn−1).

[L5]

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

technique · direct
1.1L1L2L4L5algebra

In (Z/5)×, the class [3] has order 4, since 34=81≡1(mod5) and no smaller positive power of 3 is congruent to 1 modulo 5. So [L1] gives [F3(μ5):F3]=4, hence this splitting field has order 34 and [L5] lets us identify it over F3 with the unique subfield F34 of Ω.

1.2L1L2L4L5algebra

In (Z/7)×, the powers of [3] are [3],[2],[6],[4],[5],[1], so [3] has order 6. Thus [L1] gives [F3(μ7):F3]=6, hence this splitting field has order 36 and [L5] lets us identify it over F3 with the unique subfield F36 of Ω.

2.1step 1.1step 1.2L2

Under the fixed identifications of steps 1.1 and 1.2, both F34 and F36 are subfields of Ω=F312 by [L2], since 4∣12 and 6∣12. Their intersection is then an intermediate field of Ω/F3, so by [L2] it is F3d for some divisor d of 12. Because the intersection lies in both fields, [L2] gives d∣4 and d∣6, hence d∣2; and since F32 lies in both fields, [L2] gives 2∣d. Therefore d=2 and F3(μ5)∩F3(μ7)=F32=F9.

3.1step 2.1L4algebra

Since gcd⁡(5,7)=1, the right-hand side of the refuted identity is K(μ1), which is just K=F3 because t−1 already splits over K. So the claimed equality would read F9=F3, which is false.

4.1step 3.1L3∎

The refuted statement therefore fails over the base field F3, 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.

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