Sign up or sign in
logo

Contributed Papers

Icon: calendar Contributed Paper Session I-2 #1 | 2025 Feb 28 from 02:00PM to 02:15PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) | Phillips 221

‟On Galois Groups, Resolvents, & an Application to Nonic Power Compositional Polynomials” by Frank Patane <frankapatane@gmail.com>, Samford University

Abstract:

We begin our discussion with a brief summary of methods for determining the Galois groups of cubics & quartics. This discussion will lead us to the notion of resolvents which is a central tool in the computation of Galois groups. We then apply these tools to the family of irreducible $f(x)=x^9+ax^6+bx^3+c$ defined over $\mathbb{Q}[x]$. We conclude with a computation Gal$(f)$ in select cases.