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Kummer extensions from adjoining $n$ -th roots over a base field containing $μ_{n}$

Definition

Let $F$ be a field, let $n \geq 1$ , assume $char F ∤ n$ , and assume $F$ contains the full group $μ_{n}$ of $n$ -th roots of unity (The group $μ_{n} (K)$ of $n$ -th roots of unity in a field, and primitive $n$ -th roots of unity).

For a subgroup $B$ with

$(F^{\times})^{n} \subseteq B \subseteq F^{\times}$

and finite quotient $B / (F^{\times})^{n}$ , choose for each $b \in B$ an $n$ -th root $b^{1 / n}$ in an algebraic closure and write

$F (B^{1 / n}) : = F (b^{1 / n} : b \in B) .$

A finite Galois extension $K / F$ is a Kummer extension of exponent dividing $n$ when $K = F (B^{1 / n})$ for some such subgroup $B$ .

The cyclic one-generator case is the earlier theorem If $μ_{n} \subseteq F$ and $char F ∤ n$ , then a degree- $n$ extension is cyclic exactly when it is $F (α)$ with $α^{n} \in F$ and $x^{n} - α^{n}$ irreducible.

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Sources

B. Conrad, Kummer Theory, Theorem 5.12 (standard reference, not scraped)
J. Ash, Basic Abstract Algebra, Section 6.7 (standard reference, not scraped)

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