Joe and Travis:
To add to all this: GAP has already implemented some related objects:
(1) Lie algebras
(http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/ref/chap64.html,
http://www.gap-system.org/Datalib/lie.html,
http://www.science.unitn.it/~degraaf/sla.html)
(2) real Lie groups (http://users.monash.edu/~heikod/corelg/),
(3) finite grps of Lie type
(http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/ref/chap50.html#X8674AAA578FE4AEE).
I'm sure I'm leaving some out.
- David


On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Travis Scrimshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Joe,
>>
>>
>> I guess I am inclined to try to build this thing and see who is interested
>> in it. The ticket you linked is very helpful to me.
>
>
> Let me know what you need from me wrt #14901 or any additional feature
> requests.
>>
>>
>> I'm interested to know more about your plans for Lie groups and Groups of
>> Lie type.
>
>
>    Right now, I don't have any immediate plans as I have many other things
> to do at present (one of which is getting back to polishing #14901). I would
> like to have Lie groups (over CC) use the SageManifolds framework rather
> than being abstract parents, and introduce their representation theory.
> However, I would be happy to review and offer my thoughts.
>>
>>
>> In some sense it seems to me that the objects I'm really working with are
>> Group schemes defined using a certain presentation. If I have a group scheme
>> I can take real points to get a lie group or points over a finite field to
>> get a finite group of Lie type. On the other hand depending on what one
>> wants to do with the Lie group/FGLT, this might have little to nothing to do
>> with how one wants to think about them.
>
>
>    That is probably the best way to think about how to implement things:
> what do you want to be able to do with them or learn from the implementation
> (at least, this is one of the ways I learn new math things). From there,
> that can tell you what features and functionality you want, which will
> influence your design decisions.
>
> Best,
> Travis
>
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