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New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 32 (2026), 1199-1216

  

Lenny Jones

Characterizing monogenic trinomials x12+ax6+b according to their Galois groups

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Published: August 5, 2026.
Keywords: monogenic, trinomial, Galois, power-compositional.
Subject [2020]: Primary 11R09, 11R04; Secondary 11R32, 11R21.

Abstract
Let f(x)=x12+ax6+b ∈ Z[x], with ab nonzero. We say that f(x) is monogenic if f(x) is irreducible over Q and {1,θ,θ2,...,θ11} is a basis for the ring of integers of Q(θ), where f(θ)=0. For each possible Galois group G of f(x) over Q, we give explicit descriptions of all monogenic trinomials f(x) having Galois group G. These results extend recent work on monogenic power-compositional quartic and sextic trinomials.

Acknowledgements

The author thanks the anonymous referee for a careful reading of this article, and for all the excellent suggestions.


Author information

Lenny Jones
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania 17257, USA

doctorlennyjones@gmail.com