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Q(23) has three embeddings into Q but only one Q-automorphism

Example

Let r=23 be the positive real cube root of 2. The extension Q(r)/Q has three embeddings into an algebraic closure of Q, but its only Q-automorphism is the identity.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The positive real cube root r of 2 and an algebraic closure Ω/Q.

[L1]

Eisenstein's criterion proves irreducibility over Q for a primitive integer polynomial satisfying its divisibility hypotheses (Eisenstein criterion over the integers).

[L2]

Embeddings of a simple algebraic extension correspond to the distinct roots of its minimal polynomial (F-embeddings of F(α) into an algebraically closed field correspond to the distinct roots of mα).

[L3]

Characteristic-zero fields are perfect, so their irreducible polynomials are separable (Fields of characteristic zero, finite fields, and algebraically closed fields are perfect).

[L5]

The real numbers form an ordered field (The reals form a totally ordered field).

Verification

technique · direct
1.1

The polynomial x32 is Eisenstein at 2, so [L1] makes it the minimal polynomial of r. By [L3] its three roots in Ω are distinct, and [L2] gives three Q-embeddings of Q(r) into Ω.

L1L2L3
1.2

The field Q(r) lies in R. In an ordered field the map xx3 is strictly increasing, or directly u3v3=(uv)(u2+uv+v2) with the second factor positive for uv; hence [L4] and [L5] make r the only real root of x32.

L4L5algebra
2.1

A Q-automorphism of Q(r) must send r to another root lying inside the same real field. Step 1.2 forces that image to be r, so the automorphism fixes the generator and is the identity.

step 1.2L2

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