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Who was the first to prove that the automorphism group of a finite field is cyclic and is generated by the Frobenius automorphism?
$\DeclareMathOperator\Aut{Aut}$It is well-known that the automorphism group $\Aut(F)$ of a finite field $F$ of characteristic $p$ is cyclic of order $n$ where $|F|=p^n$. Moreover, the cyclic group $\...
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