Hello all: In trying to compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the discrete Fourier transformation for Z/5Z for a class I'm teaching, I came across the following:
sage: MS = MatrixSpace(CyclotomicField(5),5,5) sage: z = CyclotomicField(5).gen() sage: F5 = MS([[1,1,1,1,1],[1,z,z^2,z^3,z^4],[1,z^2,z^4,z^6,z^8],[1,z^3,z^6,z^9,z^(12)],[1,z^4,z^8,z^(12),z^(16)]]) sage: F5.eigenspaces() --------------------------------------------------------------------------- <class 'gen.PariError'> Traceback (most recent call last) /mnt/hd200/sagefiles/sage-1.5/<ipython console> in <module>() /mnt/hd200/sagefiles/sage-1.5/matrix2.pyx in matrix2.Matrix.eigenspaces() /mnt/hd200/sagefiles/sage-1.5/matrix2.pyx in matrix2.Matrix.kernel() /mnt/hd200/sagefiles/sage-1.5/sage_object.pyx in sage_object.SageObject._pari_() /mnt/hd200/sagefiles/sage-1.5/gen.pyx in gen._pari_trap() <class 'gen.PariError'>: forbidden (45) Is this method only defined over QQ? Note that sage: A = F5 - (-2*z^3 - 2*z^2 - 1)*MS.identity_matrix() sage: A.kernel() works. (BTW, (-2*z^3 - 2*z^2 - 1 = -\sqrt{5}.) - David Joyner --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---