On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:19:54PM -0800, Chris Godsil wrote:
> The usual convention in graph theory is that a Cayley graph does _not_
> have to be connected.
> For example it is a basic theorem due to Sabidussi that a graph X is a
> Cayley graph for a group G if and
> only if G acts regularly on the vertices of X.  Since there does not
> appear to be a significant cost
> in following this convention, I think it should be followed.

> >     * Merges cayley_graph with that for FiniteSemigroups. In the
> >       merging, connecting_set was deprecated to generators. Also

Oops, it seems there is an ambiguity in my patch description. The
patch surely does not *remove* this useful feature. It just renames
the ``connecting_set=...`` option, to ``generators=`` (while
temporarily retaining backward compatibility).

More on the rationale in my answer to Robert.

Cheers,
                                Nicolas
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http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/

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