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Galois Groups of Even Sextic Polynomials

Part of: Field extensions Computational number theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2019

Chad Awtrey  and
Peter Jakes
Chad Awtrey
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Elon University, Campus Box 2320, Elon, NC 27244 Email: cawtrey@elon.edupjakes@elon.edu
Peter Jakes
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Elon University, Campus Box 2320, Elon, NC 27244 Email: cawtrey@elon.edupjakes@elon.edu
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Abstract

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Let $f(x)=x^{6}+ax^{4}+bx^{2}+c$ be an irreducible sextic polynomial with coefficients from a field $F$ of characteristic $\neq 2$, and let $g(x)=x^{3}+ax^{2}+bx+c$. We show how to identify the conjugacy class in $S_{6}$ of the Galois group of $f$ over $F$ using only the discriminants of $f$ and $g$ and the reducibility of a related sextic polynomial. We demonstrate that our method is useful for producing one-parameter families of even sextic polynomials with a specified Galois group.

Keywords

even polynomialssexticGalois group

MSC classification

Primary: 11Y40: Algebraic number theory computations
Secondary: 12F10: Separable extensions, Galois theory

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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , September 2020 , pp. 670 - 676
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© Canadian Mathematical Society 2019

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