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Monogenic even sextic trinomials and their Galois groups

Number Theory 2026-02-03 v2

Abstract

Let f(x)=x6+Ax2k+BZ[x]f(x)=x^6+Ax^{2k}+B\in {\mathbb Z}[x], with A0A\ne 0 and k{1,2}k\in \{1,2\}. We say that f(x)f(x) is {\em monogenic} if f(x)f(x) is irreducible over Q{\mathbb Q} and {1,θ,θ2,θ3,θ4,θ5}\{1,\theta,\theta^2,\theta^3,\theta^4,\theta^{5}\} is a basis for the ring of integers of Q(θ){\mathbb Q}(\theta), where f(θ)=0f(\theta)=0. For each value of kk and each possible Galois group GG of f(x)f(x) over Q{\mathbb Q}, we use a theorem of Jakhar, Khanduja and Sangwan to give explicit descriptions of all monogenic trinomials f(x)f(x) having Galois group GG. We also determine when these descriptions provide infinitely many such trinomials, and we investigate when these trinomials generate distinct sextic fields. These results extend recent work on monogenic power-compositional sextic trinomials of the form g(x3)g(x^3) to the situation g(x2)g(x^2), and thereby complete the characterization, in terms of their Galois groups, of monogenic power-compositional sextic trinomials.

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@article{arxiv.2601.17994,
  title  = {Monogenic even sextic trinomials and their Galois groups},
  author = {Lenny Jones},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.17994},
  year   = {2026}
}