More nice equations for nice groups
Author:
Shreeram S. Abhyankar
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 2977-2991
MSC (1991):
Primary 12F10, 14H30, 20D06, 20E22
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03472-7
MathSciNet review:
1343676
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Abstract: Nice quintinomial equations are given for unramified coverings of the affine line in nonzero characteristic $p$ with PSp$(2m,q)$ and Sp$(2m,q)$ as Galois groups where $m>2$ is any integer and $q>1$ is any power of $p$.
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Shreeram S. Abhyankar
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
Email:
ram@cs.purdue.edu
Received by editor(s):
March 21, 1995
Additional Notes:
This work was partly supported by NSF grant DMS 91–01424 and NSA grant MDA 904–92–H–3035.
Communicated by:
Ronald M. Solomon
Article copyright:
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