Paper 3, Section II, G

Groups, Rings and Modules | Part IB, 2012

For each of the following assertions, provide either a proof or a counterexample as appropriate:

(i) The ring Z2[X]/⟨X2+X+1⟩\mathbb{Z}_{2}[X] /\left\langle X^{2}+X+1\right\rangle is a field.

(ii) The ring Z3[X]/⟨X2+X+1⟩\mathbb{Z}_{3}[X] /\left\langle X^{2}+X+1\right\rangle is a field.

(iii) If FF is a finite field, the ring F[X]F[X] contains irreducible polynomials of arbitrarily large degree.

(iv) If RR is the ring C[0,1]C[0,1] of continuous real-valued functions on the interval [0,1][0,1], and the non-zero elements f,g∈Rf, g \in R satisfy f∣gf \mid g and g∣fg \mid f, then there is some unit u∈Ru \in R with f=u⋅gf=u \cdot g.

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