Extensions of special 3-fields

Abstract

We investigate finite field extensions of the unital 3-field, consisting of the unit element alone, and find considerable differences to classical field theory. Furthermore, the structure of their automorphism groups is clarified and the respective subfields are determined. In an attempt to better understand the structure of 3-fields that show up here we look at ways in which new unital 3-fields can be obtained from known ones in terms of product structures, one of them the Cartesian product which has no analogue for binary fields.