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Problem 5

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Suppose EE is the splitting field of some polynomial over GF(p)\mathrm{GF}(p), where pp is a prime. If ∣Gal(E/GF(p))∣=q6|\mathrm{Gal}(E/\mathrm{GF}(p))|=q^{6} where qq is also a prime, how many fields are strictly between EE and GF(p)\mathrm{GF}(p)? That is, how many fields FF are there such that GF(p)⊂F⊂E\mathrm{GF}(p)\subset F\subset E?

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