More nice equations for nice groups

Abhyankar, Shreeram

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

More nice equations for nice groups
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by Shreeram S. Abhyankar

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 2977-2991

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03472-7

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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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