field extension

plural field extensions

1. field theoryalgebraAny pair of fields, denoted L/K, such that K is a subfield of L.

   2007, Pierre Antoine Grillet, Abstract Algebra, Springer, 2bd Edition, page 530, A field extension of a field K is, in particular, a K-algebra. Hence any two field extensions of K have a tensor product that is a K-algebra.

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   A Galois field extension may be defined in terms of its Galois group (Section 2) or in terms of the internal structure of the extension (Section 3).

   1974, Thomas W. Hungerford, Algebra, Springer, page 230

   1998, David Goss, Basic Structures of Function Field Arithmetic, Springer, Corrected 2nd Printing, page 283, Note that the extension of L obtained by adjoining all division points of ψ includes at most a finite constant field extension.