Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-31 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:08:30AM +0200, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: Ok, final vote ... homogeneous complete homegeneous complete To summarize there was a majority for homogeneous over complete, and everybody could live with complete homogeneous, but was finding it long. So

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-28 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 02:21:36PM -0700, Anne Schilling wrote: I am against this. Why is the symbol of the basis h and not c? If you want to change homogeneous to the full name of complete homogeneous that is fine with me. In Sagan's book he first introduces these functions by their full

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-28 Thread Christian Stump
Quick and from the phone (since we are currently biking at the Baltic see): I vote with Anne and Mike for homogeneous or complete homogeneous. Best, Christian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-combinat-devel group. To post to this group, send

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-28 Thread Martin Rubey
Nicolas M. Thiery nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr writes: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 02:21:36PM -0700, Anne Schilling wrote: I am against this. Why is the symbol of the basis h and not c? If you want to change homogeneous to the full name of complete homogeneous that is fine with me. In Sagan's book

[sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-27 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:41:47AM +0200, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: sage: Sym.h() # should this be complete? Sym on the homogeneous basis Hugh agrees with me (and Alain!) that homogeneous should be changed to complete. Other opinions? He also suggests that it

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-27 Thread Martin Rubey
Nicolas M. Thiery nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr writes: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:41:47AM +0200, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: sage: Sym.h() # should this be complete? Sym on the homogeneous basis Hugh agrees with me (and Alain!) that homogeneous should be changed

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-27 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 04:05:39PM +0200, Martin Rubey wrote: I think that in the complete basis is somewhat strange to read. How about sage: Sym.p() Sym; basis: powersum sage: Sym.m() Sym; basis: monomial sage: Sym.e() Sym; basis: elementary sage: Sym.h()

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-27 Thread Franco Saliola
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr wrote: Ok, everybody, please vote! sage: Sym.e() Sym; basis: elementary There is an issue with the above in that it makes no mention of the base ring. Knowing the base ring is important since it causes

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-27 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:39:14AM -0400, Franco Saliola wrote: sage: Sym.e() Sym; basis: elementary There is an issue with the above in that it makes no mention of the base ring. Knowing the base ring is important since it causes issues with changing bases over different base

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-27 Thread Anne Schilling
On 8/27/12 6:23 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:41:47AM +0200, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: sage: Sym.h() # should this be complete? Sym on the homogeneous basis Hugh agrees with me (and Alain!) that homogeneous should be changed to

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-27 Thread Anne Schilling
On 8/27/12 2:21 PM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:07:15PM -0700, Frédéric Chapoton wrote: sage: Sym.e() Symmetric Functions over Rational Field in the elementary basis This is my vote, for coherence with the rest of Sage, using long descriptions in

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-27 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 02:29:34PM -0700, Anne Schilling wrote: Sym ... in the LLT spin basis at level 3. I thought we agreed on in. Of course ... Nicolas -- Nicolas M. Thiéry Isil nthi...@users.sf.net http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ -- You received this message

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-27 Thread Andrew Mathas
On Tuesday, 28 August 2012 07:35:27 UTC+10, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 02:29:34PM -0700, Anne Schilling wrote: Sym ... in the LLT spin basis at level 3. I think it should be ... in the LLT spin basis OF level 3. Andrew -- You received this message because you

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Names for the bases of symmetric functions

2012-08-27 Thread Mike Zabrocki
I want to weigh in on the choice of homogeneous/complete/homogeneous complete. I posted some comments on the trac server. Hugh agrees with me (and Alain!) that homogeneous should be changed to complete. Other opinions? I am truly afraid of what Alain has to say about this subject. He is very