On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 6:46 AM Alec Linden Disney-Hogg <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Travis,
>
> Yes I just updated to 9.1 and have found this problem fixed, thanks.
>
> I'd love to contribute to sage, and indeed have ideas for Verma modules
> that I'd like to see if it's possible to get to work. I've not contributed
> to an open source project like this before, so I imagine I'll need to take
> it step by step.
>

Welcome!  I would start by taking a look at the developer guide
<https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/index.html> and picking
something small/easy to implement for your first issue.
David

> Best,
>
> Linden
> On 22/09/2020 00:22, 'Travis Scrimshaw' via sage-devel wrote:
>
> Hi Linden,
>    This works for me in 9.1. So this was either fixed in a later version
> or possibly wasn't considered supported in version 8.9 (although probably
> the former). So I would recommend upgrading to the latest version of Sage.
>
> Side note: if you would like to contribute to Sage, the (semi)simple Lie
> algebras should probably just return themselves as the derived subalgebra.
>
> Best,
> Travis
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 7:36:58 AM UTC+10, Linden Disney wrote:
>>
>> On the doc page for Lie subalgebras (
>> https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/algebras/sage/algebras/lie_algebras/subalgebra.html)
>> there is an example getting a subalgebra of sl3:
>>
>> sl3 = LieAlgebra(QQ, cartan_type=['A',2])
>> D = sl3.derived_subalgebra()
>>
>> This throws the error
>>
>> TypeError: unsupported operand parent(s) for <: 'Coroot lattice of the
>> Root system of type ['A', 2]' and 'Root lattice of the Root system of type
>> ['A', 2]'
>>
>> The error persists when calculating general subalgebras (e.g. trying
>> sl3.subalgebra(list(sl3.e())) ) and seems to be related to the classical
>> Lie algebra, as I can get subalgebras working fine with, for example, the
>> Heisenberg algebra (see first example on the doc page).
>>
>> I am running SageMath version 8.9, Release Date: 2019-09-29 with system
>> details:
>>
>> Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
>>                      Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic
>>           Architecture: x86-64
>>
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