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Exercise 9.15
Suppose that and that , where is a primary prime in . Show that is solvable in iff . We assume that .
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Proof. Since , if , then , thus .
Conversely, suppose that . Then the equation has a solution . Moreover, the class of has a representative modulo (see the proof of Proposition 9.2.1) :
So has a solution .
Thus , therefore in , and so .
Conclusion: if , , where is a primary prime, and ,
In other words, is solvable in iff it is solvable in . □