Paper 1, Section II, 16H16 \mathrm{H}

Number Fields | Part II, 2015

(a) Let KK be a number field, and ff a monic polynomial whose coefficients are in OK\mathcal{O}_{K}. Let MM be a field containing KK and α∈M\alpha \in M. Show that if f(α)=0f(\alpha)=0, then α\alpha is an algebraic integer.

Hence conclude that if h∈K[x]h \in K[x] is monic, with hn∈OK[x]h^{n} \in \mathcal{O}_{K}[x], then h∈OK[x]h \in \mathcal{O}_{K}[x].

(b) Compute an integral basis for OQ(α)\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)} when the minimum polynomial of α\alpha is x3−x−4x^{3}-x-4.

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