Archimedean and Euclidean implies trivial automorphism group
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Statement
Suppose is a Euclidean Archimedean field: a field that is both Euclidean and Archimedean. In other words, there exists a total ordering on making into an ordered field, such that if and only if is a square. Then, the automorphism group of is trivial.
Proof
Proof outline
- Any field automorphism of must send squares to squares.
- Any field automorphism of is also an automorphism of as an ordered field, i.e., it preserves the total ordering.
- We now use the fact that the field automorphism fixes every rational number, combined with the fact that the rational numbers are dense in .