On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Bogdan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  I want to recommend SAGE to my students of an introductory abstract
>  algebra. One of the things I explain is Cayley graphs of groups of
>  small order. (Many of them can easily done by hand, of course, and we
>  do this in class.) My only problem with using SAGE for this purpose is
>  that, all of its pictures Cayley graphs of finite groups are roughly
>  of the same size, and therefore if one wants to plot the Cayley graph
>  of A_5, then the picture becomes unreadable because the 60 elements of
>  the group have to be depicted in a rather small area. If somehow one
>  could magnify the picture, it'll be wonderful. If this can be done
>  already, please do let me know.
>
>  To plot the Cayley graph of A_5 , I define the group G = A5, then
>  execute
>  G = A5.cayley_graph()  and finally execute
>
>  show(G, color_by_label=True, edge_labels=True)
>
>  I look forward to hearing from you.

You might try:

A5 = AlternatingGroup(5)
A5.cayley_graph().show(figsize=15)

which will make a very large Cayley graph.  You can then scroll around
in your web browser to view it.

Unfortunately there appears to be no way in Sage to make the edges of
graphics not be
really thick.

-- william

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