On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Nicolas M. Thiery<nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> wrote: > > 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?
Certainly improving representation theory in Sage would be a great choice of topic. I hope we don't have to wait an entire year for the above sketched functionality to happen though. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
