>> Summation over cycles is still not gone.
> 
> But over permutations. That's a lot less!

Arrrggghhh. Of course my sentence should have read:

"Summation over permutations is still not gone."

> So, we would have
> 
> cycleTypeSpecies(p: CYCLETYPE, n: Integer): CYCLETYPE == {
>     cycleType: CYCLETYPE := [];
>     s := cycleIndexSeries$F;
>     N := count(n)$F
>     for k in N..1 by -1 repeat {
>         divisorsK: List Integer := divisors k;
>         sum: Integer := 0;
>         for d in divisorsK repeat {
>             sum := sum + moebiusMu(k/d)
>                         *coefficient(s, cycleTypePower(p, d));
> -- this is very rough... is there such a function coefficient? Or count?
>         }
>         cycleType := cons(sum/k, cycleType);
>     }
>     cycleType;
> }
> 
> which is quite ugly, I must confess. (Concerning documentation, I would have
> thought that
> 
> Thus, we need to compute $(G[\sigma])_k$. Proposition~3 in the same section
> reads
> \begin{prop}
>   $$(G[\sigma])_k = \frac{1}{k}\sum_{d\mid k} \mu(k/d) fix G[\sigma^d],$$ 
> where
>   $\mu$ is the M\"obius function for integers.
> \end{prop}
> 
> and
> 
> Similarly, if $G$ is a species, the longest cylce of $G[\sigma]$ can only be
> shorter than the the longest cycle of $\sigma$. (Check this...!)
> 
> is enough... (apart from the fact, that the final sentence is wrong)

Oh, I have not guessed that and the function name "cycleTypeSpecies" 
tells me nothing at all. Not even from the documentation you give I 
understand the input/output specification.

Ralf

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