390 ON THE JACOBIAN SEXTIC EQUATION. [776
where ag + 9bf— 20d 2 = 0. It is to be shown, that this implies a single relation between
the four invariants A, B, C, and A of the sextic function.
I call to mind that the general sextic has five invariants A, B, G, D, E of the
orders 2, 4, 6, 10, 15 respectively; the last of them E is not independent, but its
square is equal to a rational and integral function of A, B, G, D; and instead of D,
we consider the discriminant A which is an invariant of the same order 10. The
values of A, B, G are given, Table Nos. 31, 34, and 35 of my Third Memoir on
Quantics, Phil. Trans., vol. cxlvi. (1856), pp. 627—647, [144]; those of D, A, E were
obtained by Dr Salmon, see his Higher Algebra, second ed. 1866, where the values of
A, B, G, D, A, E are all given; only those of A, B, G, A are reproduced in the third
edition, 1876.
It may be remarked, that for the general form we have A = ag — 6bf + lace — 10d 2 ,
and that B is the determinant
a, b, c, d :
b, c, d, e
c, d, e, f
d, e, f, g
G and A are complicated forms, the latter of them containing 246 terms. But writing
c = 0, e = 0, there is a great reduction; we have
A =
B =
C =
2) =
ag + 1
ad 2 g —
1
a 2 d 2 g 2 +
1
a 5 g r> +
1
bf - 6
bf 2 +
1
,,df 3 +
4
a 4 bfg i
30
d 2 - 10
bdf-
2
a bdfg +
12
„ dY -
300
d i +
1
»d*g -
20
„ dpg -
2500
a°b 3 dg 2 +
4
,,/ 6
3125
,,bf 3 +
8
a 3 bf 2 f —
15
„ vdf*-
24
„ bdfg 2 -
4800
» bdf +
24
„ bdf 4 g -
7500
,,d 6 -
8
„ d*g* +
30000
,,df 3 g +
50000
a 2 b 3 dg 4 —
2500
,,b 3 /y -
410
„b*dfy-
171300
„ b 2 dp -
240000
„ bdfg 2 +
780000
„ bdf 4 +
1200000
,, dhf -
1000000
„ df 2 -
1600000
a Pdfg 3 —
7500
„ bf 4 g -
11520
„ b 3 d 3 g 3 +
50000
„ b 3 df 3 g +
83200
a°¥g 4 —
3125
„ b 5 df 2 g 2 -
240000
»bf 5 -
331776
„Vdfg 2 +
1200000
,,b 4 df 4 +
1843200
,,b 3 dy -
1600000
„Pdf 3 -
2560000