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Post Posted: Jul 06, 2006, 1:24 pm • # 1 


The problem (I guess trivial, but I can't seem to get it :( )
Let k be a field and \mathbb{K} an extension of k, with the property that any polynomial with coefficients in k has a root in \mathbb{K}. Prove that any polynomial with coefficients in k splits into linear factors in \mathbb{K}.
(The next step, which I know how to do, is to prove that \mathbb{K} is algebraically closed)

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Post Posted: Jul 06, 2006, 4:38 pm • # 2 


well..
suppose there's a polynomial that doesn't split, then take a polynomial with minimal degree that doesn't split, and you get your absurd...
the only thing is you have to show that if f(x) = (x-a)g(x), with a\in K, then g \in K[x]... but this comes from the algorithm of division.
 
 
Post Posted: Jul 06, 2006, 10:59 pm • # 3 


Why don't you read the problem carefully? It should split completely into linear factors. And you can't apply the hypothesis to g(x), since it has coefficients in \mathbb{K}. So please think again. :maybe:

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Post Posted: Jul 08, 2006, 10:27 am • # 4 


1) Let \alpha_{1},...,\alpha_{n} be all the roots of some P(x)\in k(x), then for every Q(x_{1},...,x_{n})\in k(x_{1},...,x_{n}) there is a permutation \pi of \alpha_{1},...,\alpha_{n} such that Q(\alpha_{\pi(1)},....,\alpha_{\pi(n)})\in \mathbb{K}. (beacuse the set of all such posible expressions (n!) are the roots of some polynomial \in k(x)). But for every permutation \pi the set of polynomials Q\in k(x_{1},...,x_{n}) such that Q(\alpha_{\pi(1)},....,\alpha_{\pi(n)})\in \mathbb{K} is a linear subspace of k(x_{1},...,x_{n}) as a k- vector space (of infinite dimension). But the a finite union of subspaces can´t be the whole space. So one of them must be all k(x_{1},...,x_{n}), ie, there exist \pi such that Q(\alpha_{\pi(1)},....,\alpha_{\pi(n)})\in \mathbb{K}, in particular if Q=x_{1}, x_{2},...,x_{n} it gives that \alpha_{1},....,\alpha_{n}\in k.

2) There is another solution, maybe cleaner by noteing that any simple normal extension of k must be contained in \mathbb{K} (since some conjugate of the generator is), in particular the splitting fields are such kind of extensions if char k=0 (primitive element theorem). So every irreducible polynomial \in \mathbb{K}(x) with coefficients in k must be purely inseparable, but in this case it trivially splits over \mathbb{K} beacuse there is only one root.


I couldnt prove or disprove the following question ¿Is the problem still true if instead of a root in \mathbb{K} we only ask that any polynomial in k(x) have some nontrivial factorization in \mathbb{K}?

¿Any ideas?

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Post Posted: Jul 11, 2006, 8:38 pm • # 5 


I found a counterexample......so it´s false.

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