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Exercise 9.23
Suppose that . Use Exercise 5 to show that is solvable in iff is of the form .
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Proof. Let be a rational prime, , then , where is a primary prime : .
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Suppose that there exists
such that
. Then
, so
. By Exercise 9.5,
, thus
, therefore
, namely
.
, where . So there exists such that .
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Conversely, suppose that there exist
such that
.
As , from the unicity proved in Exercise 8.13, we obtain , so , and .
Thus there exists such that . As , , so there exists such that , and .
Therefore , namely , where is a rational prime, thus : there exists such that .
Moreover implies .