http://posic.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] posic.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] posic 2002-10-19 07:06 am (UTC)

No, not an order of an element, but all roots of all orders. For each element a in F, you adjoin all roots of the element a. That is, adjoin to F all roots of the equations xn-a=0, for all n, and all a in F.

When F contains all roots of unity, it will be just the maximal abelian extension of F.

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