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Symmetry and solvability: Galois groups of equivariant enumerative problems
Thomas Brazelton, Alberto Landi, Sidhanth Raman
At the genesis of Galois theory at the end of the 19th century, enumerative geometers were concerned with the solvability of various problems: for instance whether one can express…
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The geometry of solutions to the general sextic
Sidhanth Raman
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 un…