Dier Max, Thank you for your reply. Indeed the answers already given were very helpful to me.]
Group theory for me is a "hobby", something exciting to explore. Groups have really very very very deep structures and properties. That's what fascinates me. With regards, Lisette > Hi, > > > Am 19.07.2010 um 10:27 schrieb Lisette Brillemans: > > [...] > > > > > So I would like to ask the forum again: Is it possible to do something > > like (and how??): > > > > gap> G:=Group([1..10]); > > Alexander Hulpke already explained that you can do: > CyclicGroup(IsPermGroup,10); > > But maybe you do not just want cyclic groups. In that case, you might want to > tell us a bit more about what it is that you want to achieve, with less > artificial examples. > > > > gap? G:=SymmetricGroup([1..10]); > > This command works as you typed it, and will return a symmetric group on the > points 1 to 10. You can also specify other (integer) sets to get a symmetric > group acting on those: > > G:=SymmetricGroup([5,7,12]); > > > > > etc. > > (and especially with 100 instead of 10 and so.) > > G1 := CyclicGroup(IsPermGroup,100); > G2 := SymmetricGroup(100); > > Again, that's only for the specific case you asked. Dan, Alexander and Max N. > already gave some easily working examples as to how to tackle the general > case. > > Bye, > Max _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
