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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
6. Automorphism Groups of Fields
Author : Juliusz Brzeziński
Published in: Galois Theory Through Exercises
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
In this chapter, we study automorphism groups of fields and introduce Galois groups of finite field extensions. The term “Galois group” is often reserved for automorphism groups of Galois field extensions, which we define and study in Chap. 9. The terminology used in this book is very common and has several advantages in textbooks (i.e. it is easier to formulate exercises). A central result of this chapter is Artin’s lemma, which is a key result in the modern presentation of Galois theory. In the exercises, we find Galois groups of many field extensions and we use also use this theorem for various problems on field extensions and their automorphism groups.