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Fields and Rings Practice Problems

This document provides practice problems related to fields and rings in abstract algebra. It includes 10 problems covering topics like determining whether expressions are algebraic or transcendental, finding ring homomorphisms, factorizing polynomials, properties of ideals, and proofs about properties of rings and fields.

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Fields and Rings Practice Problems

This document provides practice problems related to fields and rings in abstract algebra. It includes 10 problems covering topics like determining whether expressions are algebraic or transcendental, finding ring homomorphisms, factorizing polynomials, properties of ideals, and proofs about properties of rings and fields.

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Math 113, Section 1, Practice problems - Fields and Rings

1. True/False: justify your answers. (a) The real number 4 + 3 2 is algebraic over Q, with degree 3. (b) The multiplicative cancellation law,If a = 0 and ab = ac, then b = c holds in any integral domain. (c) Let R be a commutative ring with identity 1 = 0, R[x] the polynomials with coecients in R, and p(x) R[x] a polynomial of degree 1. Then p(x) has a root in R. (d) Let F be a eld, F[x] the polynomials with coecients in F, and p(x) F[x] a non-constant polynomial. The function : F[x] F[x] dened by f (x) f (x)p(x) is a ring homomorphism. (e) Suppose that F is a eld, and D and E are subelds of F. Then D E is also a subeld of F. (f) The ring Z12 /(4) is an integral domain. (g) If is algebraic over Q and is transcendental over Q, then + is transcendental over Q. (h) Z[x] is an ideal in Q[x]. (i) Every ideal in Zn is principal. (j) 8 2 Q( 12 2). 2. Let E/F be a eld extension. Let E be algebraic of odd degree over F . Show that 2 is algebraic of odd degree over F , and that F () = F (2 ). 3. Find all ring homomorphisms from Z6 to Z10 . 4. Factorize f (x) = x3 2x2 + 3x + 5 into a product of irreducibles. 5. Let R be a commutative ring with identity 1 = 0, and let I and J be ideals of R. Either prove or give a counter example to the following statements: (a) If I contains a unit, then I = R. (b) If I and J are both prime ideals, then I J is also a prime ideal. (c) If I and J are both principal ideals, then I J is a principal ideal. 6. Find the quotient and the remainder when x3 + 8x2 + 7x 1 is divided by 4x 1 in Z11 [x]. 7. Let = 1 + 2 + 3 R. Find a degree 4 polynomial f Q[x] such that f () = 0. Is your polynomial irreducible over Q? 8. Consider the quotient ring F = Z3 /(x2 + 1). (a) Show that F is a eld. (b) Let be the equivalence class [x + 1] F . Determine the order of in the multiplicative group F = F \ {0}. 9. Proofs. (a) Let R be a nite ring with 1 = 0. Prove that every non-zero element of R is a zero-divisor or a unit. (b) Let R be a commutative ring. Prove that the ideal M is a maximal ideal if and only if R/M is a eld. (c) Let R be a commutative ring. Prove that the ideal P is a prime ideal if and only if R/P is an integral domain. (d) Prove that a Euclidean domain is a Principal Ideal Domain. (e) Prove that in an integral domain, a prime element is always irreducible. (f) The element is algebraic over a eld F if and only if [F () : F ] is nite.

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