A normal subgroup acts trivially on all embeddings of an intermediate field precisely when it fixes that field pointwise. Embeddings are extended to ambient automorphisms using normality of the ambient extension, without any normality assumption on the intermediate field.
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namespace EtaleFundamentalGroups
universe u v
variable {K : Type u} {E : Type v} [Field K] [Field E] [Algebra K E]
[Normal K E]theorem normalSubgroup_fixes_embeddings_iff_le_fixingSubgroup
(H : Subgroup (E ≃ₐ[K] E)) [H.Normal] (L : IntermediateField K E) :
(∀ g ∈ H, ∀ φ : L →ₐ[K] E, g.toAlgHom.comp φ = φ) ↔
H ≤ L.fixingSubgroup