Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
2 votes
0 answers
59 views

Tensor product of two transcendental flat algebras is not a field?

I'm considering the correctness of the following assertion, which is related to linear disjointness (I'm trying to generalize it to subalgebras), What does "linearly disjoint" mean for ...
6 votes
2 answers
462 views

Splitting subspaces and finite fields

Hellow. I'm sure that the following is truth, but I can't prove it. Let $R<S<K, R=\mathrm{GF}(q),\ S= \mathrm{GF}(q^n), \ K= \mathrm{GF}(q^{mn})$ be a chain of finite fields and $A = \{\theta\...
1 vote
0 answers
246 views

Frobenius twist of a field

Let $k$ be a field of characteristic $p>0$ (not necessarily perfect). Consider the Frobenius endomorphism $F : k \to k$, $x \mapsto x^p$. I am curious about what happens when we take $k$ as a $k$-...
7 votes
3 answers
2k views

Is there a field which is the union of finitely many proper subfields?

Is there a field which is the union of finitely many proper subfields?