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Ben Weiss
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This may ramble a bit much, but I hope it provides some help in how to think about the problem.

Let's see what your extension of fields looks like. We have 4 possible extensions (perhaps the same) So that any of them is

$\mathbb Q(z_i)$

$|$

$\mathbb Q\left(\sqrt2\right)$

$|$

$\mathbb Q$

Where $z_i$ ranges of the 4 possible roots $z_1,...,z_4.$ Then $\mathbb Q(z_1)$ is degree 4 (since the polynomial is irreducible), but this polynomial factors into a product of quadratics over $\mathbb Q\left(\sqrt2\right).$ So indeed we've reduced to having only two possible extensions, in that the two roots of the same quadratic generate the same extension over $\mathbb Q(\sqrt2).$

However, except for this restriction, I don't see anything else to lead to a relation on the coefficients. Hopefully this will help you or someone else get a start on the problem.

Ben Weiss
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