What are the properties of quartic polynomials with different cubic resolvents?

In summary, the conversation is discussing the possibility of finding a quartic polynomial over a field F with a root in F, but whose splitting field is not the same as its resolvent cubic. The speaker mentions that the splitting field of the cubic resolvent is contained in the splitting field of the quartic, narrowing down the options. However, it is uncertain if this is possible due to the definition of the cubic resolvent in terms of the roots of the quartic. The speaker is struggling to find an example of two quartic polynomials with the same splitting field but different cubic resolvents.
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I'm trying to come up with an example of a quartic polynomial over a field F which has a root in F, but whose splitting field isn't the same as its resolvent cubic.

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Well, I know the splitting field of the cubic resolvent is contained in the splitting field of the quartic, so that narrows down the choices quite a bit. But frankly I'm not even sure this is possible because the cubic resolvent is pretty much defined in terms of the roots of the quartic.
 
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So any polynomial would have to have a root in F but also have some other root that's not in F, or two distinct roots in F, but then the cubic resolvent would have to be different. Is it possible for two quartic polynomials to have the same splitting field but different cubic resolvents? I'm having trouble coming up with an example of this!
 

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