Dear Forum, Krishna Mohan asked:
> I wanted to know if the ordering of conjugacy classes as obtained by using > the commands CharacterTable and Irr are the same. > I generally find it to be so. The gap manual is not very clear about this > although the impression I got was that it is indeed the same. It does not need to be (but often is, in particular if the table is computed from scratch for a given group the classes are just taken as given by the group). If the table was taken from a library of existing tables, for example by connecting a given table with a given group, however, it is possible that the arrangement will differ. Because of this, the attribute IdentificationOfClasses for a character table holds the corresponding class numbers of the underlying group. See the manual chapter The Interface between Character Tables and Groups http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/htm/ref/CHAP069.htm#SECT006 for more details. Best, Alexander Hulpke -- Colorado State University, Department of Mathematics, Weber Building, 1874 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1874, USA email: hul...@math.colostate.edu, Phone: ++1-970-4914288 http://www.math.colostate.edu/~hulpke _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
