What is Kronecker's theorem/lemma for root solutions?

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Kronecker's theorem addresses the solvability of odd prime degree polynomials and simplifies the proof of Abel's Theorem regarding the impossibility of solving quintic equations by radicals. The theorem indicates that if a polynomial has more than one root in a field extension, a smaller field containing those roots must exist, contradicting the prime degree of the splitting field. Key resources for understanding this theorem include the textbook by Marlow Anderson and Todd Feil, which provides a comprehensive proof and discussion of Kronecker's work.

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I am going through this article, and it mentions a Kronecker made a discovery about odd prime degree polynomials that makes Abel's Theorem on the impossibility of the quintic easier to prove:

https://hubpages.com/education/Abel...oduction-to-the-Sublime-Beauty-of-Mathematics

Obviously, Kronecker has produced a lot of mathematical work, and I find it hard to find his proof on this.
 
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If we had more than one zero in a field extension, then there would be a field in between with those zeros and no others of degree greater than two. But the total degree of the splitting field is prime and the degree of the smaller field would be a divisor of that prime. Thus there can only be one zero or already all.
 
fresh_42 said:
If we had more than one zero in a field extension, then there would be a field in between with those zeros and no others of degree greater than two. But the total degree of the splitting field is prime and the degree of the smaller field would be a divisor of that prime. Thus there can only be one zero or already all.

Hi, do you have link that discusses the proof for this?
 
The textbook, https://danboak.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/afirstcourseinabstractalgebra.pdf, by Marlow Anderson and Todd Feil, has a proof of Kronecker’s Theorem, and uses and discusses it extensively.

Summary for Chapter 48 Solving Polynomials by Radicals:
In this chapter we prove that if a polynomial over a subfield of the complex numbers can be solved by radicals, then the Galois group of its splitting field over the base field is necessarily a solvable group. We can then easily exhibit a fifth degree polynomial over the rational numbers that cannot be solved by radicals.​
 

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