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Part CCSIR NET December 2024separability-is-free-in-all-four-settings

Separability is free in all four settings

Which of the following statements are true?

  1. A.If K is the splitting field of a non-constant polynomial over Q\mathbb{Q}, then K is Galois over Q\mathbb{Q}.✓ Correct
  2. B.If K is a normal extension of Q\mathbb{Q}, then K is Galois over Q\mathbb{Q}.✓ Correct
  3. C.If K is the set of all the roots of the polynomial x121−xx^{121} - x in an algebraic closure of 𝔽11_{11}, then K is Galois over 𝔽11_{11}, where 𝔽11_{11} is the field with 11 elements.✓ Correct
  4. D.If K=Q(2(1/13),ζ13)K = \mathbb{Q}(2^(1/13), \zeta_{13}), where ζ13\zeta_{13} is a primitive 13th root of unity in C\mathbb{C}, then K is Galois over Q\mathbb{Q}.✓ Correct

You have the answer. Trap Analysis is why the other three were written.

Not a worked solution repeated four times — the specific reasoning error each wrong option was built to reward, and why this one tests hypothesis dropped.

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The trap it tests

Hypothesis dropped

A theorem applied without checking one of its preconditions.

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Related counterexample: Every extension of degree n has a Galois group of order n

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The chapter behind this: Galois correspondence and the standard groups — free to read

From Rings and Fields › Galois theory essentials

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