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Exercise 7.2.10
In (7.5), explain why is complex conjugation restricted to .
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Proof. Let .
is the unique -automorphism of such as
If is element of , then , where , thus . Let the restriction (and corestriction) of the conjugation in . Then is an involutive ring homomorphism, thus an automorphism of the field , which is the identity on : . As
and as a -automorphism of is uniquely determined by the images of , , so is the complex conjugation restricted to . □