Solving the Sextic by Iteration: A Study in Complex Geometry and Dynamics
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Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Projective and enumerative algebraic geometry (14N99) Dynamics of complex polynomials, rational maps, entire and meromorphic functions; Fatou and Julia sets (37F10) Small divisors, rotation domains and linearization in holomorphic dynamics (37F50)
Abstract: Recently, Peter Doyle and Curt McMullen devised an iterative solution to the fifth degree polynomial. At the method's core is a rational mapping of the Riemann sphere with the icosahedral symmetry of a general quintic. Moreover, this map posseses "reliable" dynamics: for almost any initial point, its trajectory converges to one of the periodic cycles that comprise an icosahedral orbit. This symmetry-breaking provides for a reliable or "generally-convergent" quintic-solving algorithm: with almost any fifth-degree equation, associate a rational map that has reliable dynamics and whose attractor consists of points from which one computes a root. An algorithm that solves the sixth-degree equation requires a dynamical system with the symmetry of the alternating group on six things. This group does not act on the Riemmann sphere, but does act on the complex projective plane--this is the Valentiner group. The present work exploits the resulting 2-dimensional geometry in finding a Valentiner-symmetric rational map whose elegant dynamics experimentally appear to be reliable in the above sense--transferred to the 2-dimensional setting. This map provides the central feature of a conjecturally-reliable sextic-solving procedure analogous to that employed in the quintic case. The paper culminates in an explicit description of the algorithm.
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