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Because they have an odd degree, normal quintic functions appear similar to normal cubic functions when graphed, except they may possess one additional local maximum and one additional local minimum. The derivative of a quintic function is a quartic function. Setting g(x) = 0 and assuming a ≠ 0 produces a quintic equation of the form:
A solution in radicals or algebraic solution is an expression of a solution of a polynomial equation that is algebraic, that is, relies only on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to integer powers, and extraction of n th roots (square roots, cube roots, etc.). A well-known example is the quadratic formula
Something more general is required for equations of higher degree, so to solve the quintic, Hermite, et al. replaced the exponential by an elliptic modular function and the integral (logarithm) by an elliptic integral. Kronecker believed that this was a special case of a still more general method. [1]
The general quintic may be reduced into what is known as the principal quintic form, with the quartic and cubic terms removed: + + + =. If the roots of a general quintic and a principal quintic are related by a quadratic Tschirnhaus transformation = + +, the coefficients and may be determined by using the resultant, or by means of the power sums of the roots and Newton's identities.
Historically, the word "solvable" arose from Galois theory and the proof of the general unsolvability of quintic equations. Specifically, a polynomial equation is solvable in radicals if and only if the corresponding Galois group is solvable [1] (note this theorem holds only in characteristic 0).
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S 5 is the Galois group of the general quintic equation, and the fact that S 5 is not a solvable group translates into the non-existence of a general formula to solve quintic polynomials by radicals. There is an exotic inclusion map S 5 → S 6 as a transitive subgroup; the obvious inclusion map S n → S n+1 fixes a point and thus is not ...