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Cyclic codes are a subclass of linear codes and have wide applications in data storage systems, communication systems and consumer electronics due to their efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. Let p ≥ 5 be an odd prime and m be a positive integer. Let C (1 , e , s) denote the p -ary cyclic code with three nonzeros α , α e , and α s , where α is a generator of F p m ⁎ , s = p m − 1 2 , and 2 ≤ e ≤ p m − 2. In this paper, by analyzing the solutions of certain equations over finite fields, we present four classes of optimal p -ary cyclic codes C (1 , e , s) with parameters [ p m − 1 , p m − 2 m − 2 , 4 ]. Some known results on optimal quinary cyclic codes with parameters [ 5 m − 1 , 5 m − 2 m − 2 , 4 ] are special cases of our constructions. In addition, by analyzing the irreducible factors of certain polynomials over F 5 m , we present two classes of optimal quinary cyclic codes C (1 , e , s). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]