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178 CHAPTER 22. EXERCISES<br />

(a) The prime p can be <strong>to</strong>tally ramified in K <strong>and</strong> L without being <strong>to</strong>tally<br />

ramified in KL.<br />

(b) The fields K <strong>and</strong> L can each contain unique primes lying over p while<br />

KL does not.<br />

(c) The prime p can be inert in K <strong>and</strong> L without being inert in KL.<br />

(d) The residue field extensions of Fp can be trivial for K <strong>and</strong> L without<br />

being trivial for KL.<br />

45. Let S3 by the symmetric group on three symbols, which has order 6.<br />

(a) Observe that S3 ∼ = D3, where D3 is the dihedral group of order 6, which<br />

is the group of symmetries of an equilateral triangle.<br />

(b) Use (45a) <strong>to</strong> write down an explicit embedding S3 ↩→ GL2(C).<br />

(c) Let K be the number field Q( 3√ 2, ω), where ω 3 = 1 is a nontrivial cube<br />

root of unity. Show that K is a Galois extension with Galois group<br />

isomorphic <strong>to</strong> S3.<br />

(d) We thus obtain a 2-dimensional irreducible complex Galois representation<br />

ρ : Gal(Q/Q) → Gal(K/Q) ∼ = S3 ⊂ GL2(C).<br />

Compute a representative matrix of Frobp <strong>and</strong> the characteristic polynomial<br />

of Frobp for p = 5, 7, 11, 13.<br />

46. Let K = Q( √ 2, √ 3, √ 5, √ 7). Show that K is Galois over Q, compute the<br />

Galois group of K, <strong>and</strong> compute Frob37.<br />

47. Let k be any field. Prove that the only nontrivial valuations on k(t) which are<br />

trivial on k are equivalent <strong>to</strong> the valuation (15.3.3) or (15.3.4) of page 115.<br />

48. A field with the <strong>to</strong>pology induced by a valuation is a <strong>to</strong>pological field, i.e., the<br />

operations sum, product, <strong>and</strong> reciprocal are continuous.<br />

49. Give an example of a non-archimedean valuation on a field that is not discrete.<br />

50. Prove that the field Qp of p-adic numbers is uncountable.<br />

51. Prove that the polynomial f(x) = x 3 − 3x 2 + 2x + 5 has all its roots in Q5,<br />

<strong>and</strong> find the 5-adic valuations of each of these roots. (You might need <strong>to</strong> use<br />

Hensel’s lemma, which we don’t discuss in detail in this book. See [Cas67,<br />

App. C].)<br />

52. In this problem you will compute an example of weak approximation, like I<br />

did in the Example 16.3.3. Let K = Q, let | · | 7 be the 7-adic absolute value,<br />

let | · | 11 be the 11-adic absolute value, <strong>and</strong> let | · | ∞ be the usual archimedean<br />

absolute value. Find an element b ∈ Q such that |b − ai| i < 1<br />

10 , where a7 = 1,<br />

a11 = 2, <strong>and</strong> a∞ = −2004.

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