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- From: bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman)
- Subject: Re: ALGEBRAIC NUMBER ARITHMETIC
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.172119.22792@linus.mitre.org>
- Keywords: algebraic numbers, arithmetic
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- References: <1992Jul30.151149.12688@ugle.unit.no> <1992Jul30.163746.21362@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:21:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.163746.21362@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul30.151149.12688@ugle.unit.no> ap@levangerhs.no (Andrei Prasolov) writes:
- >>Answering to <aet.712408532@munagin>
- >>in <1992Jul29.163830.6443@ugle.unit.no>
- >>I made a mistake. If we represent algebraic numbers
- >>only by their minimal polynomials, we cannot construct
- >>a correct arithmetic. Let us take the main root x of
- > ^^^^
- >
- >There is no such animal as a 'main root'. There is only a
- >root and its conjugates. If alpha is a root of a polynomial,
- >then the field Q(alpha) is isomorphic to Q(alpha') where
- >alpha' is any of alpha's conjugates. The map is controlled by the
- ^
- insert:
-
- when the field is GALOIS.
-
- >Galois group.
- >
- >Your assertion that one cannot construct a correct arithmetic if all
- >one has is the minimal polynomial is FALSE.
-
- Oops. Carelessness alert! I don't know what I was thinking about when
- I typed the above. I left out several KEY words. I've added them above.
- Sloppy. Clearly Q(alpha1), Q(alpha2) ... are subfields of the splitting
- field and need not be isomorphic except when one of the fields contains ALL
- of the roots.
-
- However, when one uses a term like "main root", one must indeed be careful
- in clarifying which root you mean.
-
-
- --
- Bob Silverman
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