Tuesday, 13 October 2015

abstract algebra - Splitting field that isn't a Galois extension





I'm trying to find a counter-example to following statement: if K is the splitting field of gF[x], then the extension K/F is Galois.




I know the statement is true if g is separable, so I need F to be infinite of characteristic p>0. My thoughts were something like K/Fp(t), where t is transcendental over Fp, and K is the splitting field of g(x)=xpt.



I know that g is irreducible and not separable (it has a repeated root sK, g(x)=xpt=xpsp=(xs)p), and if I could show that g was the minimal polynomial of s over Fp(t) then I think I'd be done (K/F is Galois if and only if for every αK, the minimal polynomial of α over F is separable and K contains its splitting field).



I'm pretty certain that this is the counter-example that I'm looking for, but I'm just struggling to fully prove to myself that it works. I know that the minimal polynomial of s must be (xs)q for some $0


Thanks,
Warren


Answer



Hint: it turns out that Fp(s) is a rational function field as well, and the field extension identifies Fp(t) with the subfield Fp(sp)Fp(s).


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