On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:40 PM, mmarco <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to write an implementation of the Braid group in sage, and
> i am finding more dificulties than expected. The reason is that the
> categories that would be involved have very few implemented objects.
> For instance, the first very basic functionality i am implementing is
> just the naive free group arithmetic (with lists of integers). So i
> wonder if there is not implementation of the free group in sage
> already done (i have looked for it, to no avail).


I think free groups are not yet implemented. It would be nice to have them.
They are of course in GAP (and GAP does have a braid
groups package).


>
>
> Another question i wonder is if the category framework would give
> support to group actions; and if it doesn't, which would be the
> apropriate aproach to implement them.
>
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