Exercise 13.1.3

Explain carefully why (13.6) follows from Exercise 9 of section 2.4.

Answers

Proof. By definition,

y 1 = x 1 x 2 + x 3 x 4 , y 2 = x 1 x 3 + x 2 x 4 , y 3 = x 1 x 4 + x 2 x 3 .

By Exercise 2.4.9, we know that

Δ ( 𝜃 ) = ( y 1 y 2 ) 2 ( y 1 y 3 ) 2 ( y 2 y 3 ) 2 = [ ( x 1 x 4 ) ( x 2 x 3 ) ( x 1 x 3 ) ( x 2 x 4 ) ( x 1 x 2 ) ( x 3 x 4 ) ] 2 = Δ

As the evaluation is a ring homomorphism, if we applied the evaluation defined by x 1 α 1 , , x 4 α 4 to this equality in F [ x 1 , x 2 , x 3 , x 4 ] , we obtain that the roots

β 1 = α 1 α 2 + α 3 α 4 , β 2 = α 1 α 3 + α 2 α 4 , β 3 = α 1 α 4 + α 2 α 3 ,

are the images of y 1 , y 2 , y 3 and satisfy

Δ ( 𝜃 f ) = ( β 1 β 2 ) 2 ( β 1 β 3 ) 2 ( β 2 β 3 ) 2 = [ ( α 1 α 4 ) ( α 2 α 3 ) ( α 1 α 3 ) ( α 2 α 4 ) ( α 1 α 2 ) ( α 3 α 4 ) ] 2 = Δ ( f )
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