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Constructibility of the real seventeenth cyclotomic field
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The real cyclotomic field
Q
(
ζ
17
+
ζ
17
−
1
)
(55)
is Galois of degree eight with cyclic Galois group
(
Z
/17
Z
)
×
/
{
±
1
}
. A subgroup chain of successive index two gives a tower of three quadratic extensions, proving that
cos
(
2
π
/17
)
is constructible.
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