Tower of fields

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In mathematics, a tower of fields is a sequence of field extensions

F0F1 ⊆ ... ⊆ Fn ⊆ ...

The name comes from such sequences often being written in the form

|F2|F1|F0.

A tower of fields may be finite or infinite.

Examples

  • QRC is a finite tower with rational, real and complex numbers.
  • The sequence obtained by letting F0 be the rational numbers Q, and letting
Fn+1=Fn(21/2n)
(i.e. Fn+1 is obtained from Fn by adjoining a 2n th root of 2) is an infinite tower.

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