Examples
Here are morphisms for various kinds of
fields.
Usual arithmetic
Modular arithmetic
Rational function field
Residue class fields
The Gaussian numbers
The embedding of
Q in
R and of
R in
C
are morphisms of fields.
Complex conjugation is a morphism c : C -> C.
The subfield {x | c(x) = x} coincides with
R.
By
definition,
for each field
K of characteristic
p,
there is an injective morphim
Z/
pZ - >
K.
Let
R be a field, and
h
R[
X].
Then the map
R(X) -> R(X),
f(X)/g(X) ->
f(h(X))/g(h(X))
(f, g
R[X],
g
0)
is a morphism.
Its image is the subfield of R(X) of all fractions
of polynomials that can be written as a polynomial in h.
On the next page, we shall come across examples
of embeddings of one residue class field in another.
As for
Q +
Qi, we have complex conjugation:
c : Q + Qi -> Q + Qi,
c(a + bi) = a - bi.
The subfield
{x | c(x) = x}
coincides with Q.