Dear Kher Sham Lim, I assume you actually want to know if G has a subgroup isomorphic to H. If so, the command you want is IsomorphicSubgroups(G,H).
This is enormously more efficient than simply listing all [conjugacy classes of] subgroups of G in most cases. It might also be helpful to first replace G by an isomorphic permutation group (using IsomorphismPermGroup). All of these commands are documented in the reference manual (equivalently in the on-line help). Steve On 1 Feb 2013, at 11:33, Kher Sham Lim <khersham....@mpi-hd.mpg.de> wrote: > Dear GAP forum > > I have a very large group to study, say G (it is an automorphism group > of a small group). G has order of 10 million and I am interested in > knowing whether a certain known group, say H is a subgroup in G. To find > H is impossible in GAP, as GAP tries to calculate all the subgroups and > this process exceeds my computer's memory. Is there another command or > algorithm in GAP to compute subgroup of specific order only, or at least > limit the subgroup order? I used SONATA to obtain the subgroups by the > way. Thanks in advanced. > > Sincerely > > Kher Sham Lim > _______________________________________________ > Forum mailing list > Forum@mail.gap-system.org > http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum