On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 09:53:27AM -0800, Anne Schilling wrote: > I would like to write a symmetric polynomial (not function) > in terms of one of the usual bases (like Schur polynomials). > > For example, I would like to write > > sage: n=2 > sage: P = PolynomialRing(QQ, 'x', n) > sage: x=[P.gen(i) for i in range(n)] > sage: f=sum((x[i] for i in range(n)), P.zero()) > sage: f > x0 + x1 > > f as a Schur polynomial in two variables. Is this possible in sage?
That's a quite basic feature, that we ought to have (that was fromPoly in MuPAD-Combinat). But I fear we don't. At least I could not find it browsing through the sources. Mike? Cheers, Nicolas -- Nicolas M. ThiƩry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net> http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-de...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en.