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- From: gsmith@urania.uucp (Gene W. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Univariate polynomial equations and the FAQ
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.100903.18040@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
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- Organization: IWR, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- References: <1d72mnINNq2p@mozz.unh.edu> <1992Nov6.184527.20793@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <1dks02INNo3b@mozz.unh.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 10:09:03 GMT
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- In article <1dks02INNo3b@mozz.unh.edu> dvf@kepler.unh.edu (David V Feldman) writes:
-
- >>>Fix an integer m. Let K be the extension of Q obtained by adjoining
- >>>all roots of all polynomials of the form
- >>> n m
- >>> x + a x + ... a
- >>> m 0
-
- >While it is true that I did not ask the question that I intended to,
- >I don't see any reason that K = Q-bar. Remember that m is fixed.
-
- At this point I don't see the reason anything is anything. I can't read
- the polynomial equation above, and suggest you write exponents in ascii
- form (x^n, etc.) so that we don't have to guess about what you've written.
-
- Are you saying, fix some m, and consider all polynomials of the
- form
-
- x^n + a_m x^m + a_(m-1) x^(m-1) + ... + a_0, a_i in Q?
-
- If so, then for m > 1 and n > 4, we have nonsolvable extensions of Q.
-
- If I am reading what you wrote below correctly, you are interested in
- extensions which have Tschernhausen transformations into a form with
- a_i beyond a certain point 0. We can see that over Q there is an
- immediate problem getting rid of the a_2 term. If the extension in
- question is totally real, the sums of the squares of the roots is
- positive. If we have eliminated the trace term already, we see
- immediately that a_2 must be positive.
-
- Some questions like this can be approached via classical invariant
- theory; it also makes a difference whether we can transform over Q or
- over a larger field. I still can't figure out exactly what it is you
- are asking, though.
-
- --
- Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/IWR/Ruprecht-Karls University
- gsmith@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
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