On Mon, April 20, 2015 5:04 pm, Nagy Gabor wrote: > > Assume that the indetermines x,y are defined using the command > <PolynomialRing> as follows: > > q:=7; > R:=PolynomialRing(GF(q^2),["x","y"]); > x:=R.1; y:=R.2; > > Is it then possible to get back the base ring R from x or y?
Not from one of the indeterminates -- but from both x and y, together with the coefficient field: gap> PolynomialRing(GF(q^2),[x,y]) = R; true The coefficient field is needed since for every characteristic, there is only one indeterminate -- i.e. gap> Indeterminate(GF(q)) = Indeterminate(GF(q^2)); true Hope this helps, Stefan _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum