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x56x+3 over Q is not solvable by radicals

Example

The irreducible quintic

f(x)=x56x+3Q[x]

is not solvable by radicals.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The polynomial f(x)=x56x+3.

[L1]

Eisenstein's criterion over Z (Eisenstein criterion over the integers).

[L2]
[L4]

Every field of characteristic zero is perfect, and over a perfect field every nonconstant irreducible polynomial is separable (Fields of characteristic zero, finite fields, and algebraically closed fields are perfect, Perfect fields: every irreducible polynomial is separable).

[L6]

The field C is algebraically closed (The complex numbers are algebraically closed).

[L7]

A positive-degree separable polynomial is irreducible exactly when its Galois group acts transitively on its roots (A positive-degree separable polynomial is irreducible exactly when its Galois group is transitive on the roots).

[L8]

For prime p, a transitive subgroup of Sp containing a transposition is all of Sp (For prime p, a transitive subgroup of Sp containing a transposition is all of Sp).

[L9]

The group S5 is not solvable (A5 and Sn for n5 are not solvable).

[L10]

In characteristic 0, a polynomial solvable by radicals has solvable Galois group (In characteristic 0, a polynomial solvable by radicals has a solvable Galois group).

[L11]

A splitting field is generated over the base field by all roots of the polynomial (Polynomials that split and splitting fields of a polynomial or a family of polynomials).

Verification

technique · direct
1.1

The prime 3 divides the coefficients 6 and 3, does not divide the leading coefficient 1, and 32=9 does not divide the constant term 3. So [L1] makes f irreducible over Q.

L1algebra
1.2

Let a:=(6/5)1/4>1, which exists by [L2]. For real numbers x<y one has f(y)f(x)=(yx)(y4+y3x+y2x2+yx3+x46). If ax<y or x<ya, then each of the five degree-four monomials in parentheses is at least a4=6/5, and at least one is strictly larger than 6/5; hence the parenthesis is >5a46=0, so f(y)>f(x). If ax<ya, then each of those monomials is at most a4=6/5, and they cannot all equal 6/5 when x<y: equality in the x4 and y4 terms would force x=y=a, while x<y would then give (x,y)=(a,a) and hence y3x=a4. So the parenthesis is <5a46=0, and therefore f(y)<f(x). Thus f is increasing on (,a], decreasing on [a,a], and increasing on [a,).

L2algebra
2.1

Because a4=6/5<16=24 and a>0, one has a<2. Also f(a)=24a5+3>0andf(a)=324a5<0. Together with f(2)=17<0 and f(2)=23>0, the continuity from [L3] and the intermediate value theorem [L5] give a root in each of the three intervals (2,a),(a,a),(a,2). Step 1.2 shows that f is monotone on each of the three corresponding regions, so there is at most one root in each. Therefore f has exactly three real roots.

L3L5step 1.2algebra
3.1

By [L6], choose all five roots of f in C and let EC be the subfield they generate over Q. Fact [L11] makes E a splitting field of f over Q. Step 2.1 shows that exactly three of those roots are real, so the remaining two roots are nonreal. Complex conjugation on C fixes Q and preserves the root set, hence it restricts to a Q-automorphism of E that fixes the three real roots and swaps the two nonreal roots. Thus Gal(E/Q) contains a transposition.

L6L11step 2.1algebra
4.1

The field Q has characteristic 0, so [L4] makes it perfect. Step 1.1 shows that f is irreducible over Q, and therefore f is separable by the defining property of a perfect field in [L4]. Fact [L7] now makes Gal(E/Q) transitive on the five roots. With step 3.1, fact [L8] gives Gal(E/Q)=S5.

L4L7L8step 1.1step 3.1
5.1

By [L9], the group S5 is not solvable. If f were solvable by radicals, [L10] would force Gal(E/Q) to be solvable, contradicting step 4.1. Hence f is not solvable by radicals.

L9L10step 4.1discharge-contradiction

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