2104.03072
Two classes of explicitly solvable sextic equations
Francesco Calogero, Farrin Payandeh
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The paper establishes two solvable classes of monic sextics via composition (Class I: Q∘C; Class II: C∘Q) and provides coefficient maps, root reconstructions, parameter recovery, and coefficient constraints. The model reproduces the same construction and formulas for Class I exactly (equations (3), (6), (7) in the paper) and for Class II matches the coefficient maps (8) and constraints (11) and derives the parameter recovery with an explicit correction to a typographical error in a1 (paper’s (10c) has an extraneous factor 2). Aside from this typo and a couple of minor slips in wording/symbols, the logic and results coincide and are obtained by the same composition-and-expansion argument (see Propositions 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, 3-2) . The constraints 27 c3 − 18 c4 c5 + 5 c5^3 = 0 and c1 = [27 c2 − 3 c4 c5^2 + c5^4] c5 / 81 exactly match the model’s derivation for Class II as well (paper (11a),(11b)) . The only substantive discrepancy is the printed factor “2” in (10c); expanding c2 = a1 + a2(2b0 + b1^2) + 3b0(b0 + b1^2) with b1 = c5/3 and a2 = c4 − 3b0 − c5^2/3 shows the correct expression has coefficient 1, and the difference from the paper’s printed version equals a2(18 b0 + c5^2)/9, generically nonzero—as the model notes.
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\textbf{Recommendation:} minor revisions
\textbf{Journal Tier:} note/short/other
\textbf{Justification:}
The paper concisely exhibits two solvable families of sextic polynomials with explicit coefficient parameterizations, root reconstructions, parameter recovery, and coefficient constraints, using an elementary composition approach. The results are valuable as a compact presentation and complement Galois-theoretic treatments. A few typographical slips—including the factor 2 in (10c)—should be corrected, and the derivation for the second family would benefit from a short proof sketch analogous to the Appendix.