On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Florent Hivert
<florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr> wrote:
>      Hi,
>
>> With Mike and Anne we are about to finalize an interface with lrcalc:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> #10333: An interface to Anders Buch's Littlewood-Richardson Calculator lrcalc
>>
>> The "Littlewood-Richardson Calculator" is a C library for fast
>> computation of Littlewood-Richardson (LR) coefficients and products of
>> Schubert polynomials. It handles single LR coefficients, products of
>> and coproducts of Schur functions, skew Schur functions, and fusion
>> products. All of the above are achieved by counting LR (skew)-tableaux
>> of appropriate shape and content by iterating through
>> them. Additionally, lrcalc handles products of Schubert polynomials.
>>
>> The web page of lrcalc is:  http://math.rutgers.edu/~asbuch/lrcalc/
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>> lrcalc weights 500Ko (100Ko of C code + administrative files +
>> mercurial repo). It's GLPV2+ with no dependencies. The code is quite
>> clean and so far proved to be portable: we used it in MuPAD-Combinat,
>> under MacOS, various flavors of Linux, and CYGWIN; tests on solaris
>> are welcome!
>
> One more argument for using it. Having it in standard Sage is a good step
> toward getting rid of Symmetrica which often causes problems and is no more
> maintained.
>
>> lrcalc will progressively become a key low-level component for Sage's
>> symmetric functions library. This evolution will be simpler if lrcalc
>> is always available.
>>
>> I therefore would like to cast a vote. Should lrcalc become:
>
> Therefore:
>
>> [X] A standard spkg
>> [ ] An optional spkg

[X] A standard spkg

Franco

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