More nice equations for nice groups

Abhyankar, Shreeram

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03472-7

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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