On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 03:57:51PM +0200, Franco Saliola wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:47 AM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > XIII. Representation Theory
> >
> > * Characters of finite groups; GAP has this, of course, but I don't
> > think Sage nicely wraps it.
> >
> > PROJECT: Wrap more of GAP's functionality, in particular characters of
> > finite groups.
>
> Can you elaborate on this? What do you mean by 'nicely wraps'? I wrote the
> ClassFunction class that wraps GAP's ClassFunction command, but I'd like to
> know what more could/should be done. I am not a GAP expert so the code
> would definitely benefit from someone more knowledgeable about GAP taking a
> look at it and providing suggestions.
>
> Currently, if you have a group G, then you can define a character/class
> function using G.character(values), you can access the irreducible
> characters using G.irreducible_characters(), grab the character table ....
>
> I think a Sage Days dedicated to representation theory might be a good idea,
> where the goal would be to implement: computation of the representation theory
> of finite groups, finite semigroups, finite dimensional algebras (quivers with
> relations), ....
I am all up for this!
Would this be an interesting topic for the Sage days at CIRM in March
2010? Or do you think this is too far ahead?
Cheers,
Nicolas
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Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
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