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The geometry of solutions to the general sextic
Abstract
We study the geometry of the three simplest known formulas for roots of a general sextic polynomial. In contrast with work of Green on the quintic, we show that no "simultaneous uniformization" of the normal forms associated to the solutions exists. This demonstrates an intrinsic qualitative complexity of sextic equations that is not present in quintic equations. Additionally, we give a formula for the roots of a general sextic in terms of Hilbert modular cusp forms and the uniformizing differential equation of the associated Hilbert modular surface.
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BibTeX
@misc{raman2026geometry,
title = {{The geometry of solutions to the general sextic}},
author = {Sidhanth Raman},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.30422},
eprint = {2609.30422},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30422},
note = {CC BY-NC-SA 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - The geometry of solutions to the general sextic
AU - Sidhanth Raman
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.30422
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30422
AB - We study the geometry of the three simplest known formulas for roots of a general sextic polynomial. In contrast with work of Green on the quintic, we show that no "simultaneous uniformization" of the normal forms associated to the solutions exists. This demonstrates an intrinsic qualitative complexity of sextic equations that is not present in quintic equations. Additionally, we give a formula for the roots of a general sextic in terms of Hilbert modular cusp forms and the uniformizing differential equation of the associated Hilbert modular surface.
ER -