extension field
Englisch
[edit]Nomen
[edit]extension field (plural extension fields)
- (algebra, field theory) A field L which contains a subfield K, called the base field, from which it is generated by adjoining extra elements.
- 1992, James G. Oxley, “Matroid Theory”, in Paperback, Oxford University Press, published 2006, page 215:
- Suppose is a subfield of the field . Then is called an extension field of . So, for instance, and are extension fields of , although is not an extension field of .
- 1995, Terence Jackson, From Polynomials to Sums of Squares, Taylor & Francis, page 56:
- This extension field of always contains a root of in the sense that if then is a root of in . It then follows that any polynomial will have roots, either in the original field of its coefficients or in some extension field.
- 1998, Neal Koblitz, Algebraic Aspects of Cryptography, Volume 3, Springer, page 53:
- An extension field, by which we mean a bigger field containing , is automatically a vector space over . We call it a finite extension if it is a finite vector space. By the degree of a finite extension we mean its dimension as a vector space. One common way of obtaining extension fields is to adjoin an element to : we say that if is the field consisting of all rational expressions formed using and elements of .
Usage notes
[edit]- Not to be confused with field extension, which refers to the construction
- The extension field constitutes a vector space over (i.e., a -vector space).
- A minimal set comprising one element of plus additional elements not in which together generate is called a basis.
- The dimension of the vector space (aka the degree of the extension), is denoted and is equal to the cardinality of .
- In the case , is called the trivial extension and can be regarded as a vector space of dimension 1.
- An extension field of degree 2 (respectively, 3) may be called a quadratic extension (respectively, cubic extension).
- A field which is both a subfield of and an extension field of may be called an intermediate field, intermediate extension oder subextension of the field extension .
Synonyms
[edit]- (field that contains a subfield): extension (where the base field is given)
Hyponyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]field that contains a subfield
Further reading
[edit]Field extension on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Field theory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Glossary of field theory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Tower of fields on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Primary extension on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Regular extension on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Extension Field on Wolfram MathWorld
- Extension of a field on Encyclopedia of Mathematics