On Jan 14, 2008 9:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does SAGE currently include any functionality for manipulating Lie > algebras? (I only need reductive Lie algebras, because I'm using them > to study compact Lie groups.) For instance, I'd like to be able to > manipulate irreducibles (encoded by their highest weights), so that I > can form a tensor product and decompose it into irreducibles.
GAP has this: http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/htm/ref/CHAP061.htm AFAIK, nothing is wrapped. > > In specific instances (like GL_n) I know in principle to translate > such questions into terms compatible with the combinatorics > functionality we have from Symmetrica. But I want to experiment with > other cases (like Sp_n) and I'd rather simply work at the Lie algebra > level, without having to keep track of the combinatorics myself. > > In any case, I'm likely to be bugging people about this at SAGE Days > 7... It might be worth emailing Willem de Graaf about it too: http://www.science.unitn.it/~degraaf/ > > Kiran > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
