I'm trying to find a counter-example to following statement: if K is the splitting field of g∈F[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)=xp−t.
I know that g is irreducible and not separable (it has a repeated root s∈K, g(x)=xp−t=xp−sp=(x−s)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 α∈K, 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 (x−s)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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