Suppose w
is a primitive n-th root of unity, let r = Ord_n(p)
, f(w)=w^p
(the frobenius map), how to prove that w,f(w),f^2(w),...f^(r-1)(w) are all different in Fp(w)
so that the minimal monic polynomial of w
over Fp factors into those r factors in Fp(w)
?
Here if w
is replaced with a primitive element of Fp(w)
then it's easy to prove. But w
is not a primitive element of Fp(w)
, it's a primitive element of Fp(w)/Fp
.