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Splitting field of x cubed minus x minus one
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Galois group of an irreducible cubic
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The polynomial
X
3
−
X
−
1
is irreducible over
Q
and has discriminant
−
23
, so its splitting field has Galois group
S
3
. Its unique quadratic subfield is the fixed field of
A
3
, namely
Q
(
−
23
)
.
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Galois group of an irreducible cubic
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