On Monday, August 20, 2012 12:56:07 PM UTC-5, John H Palmieri wrote:
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> On Monday, August 20, 2012 10:36:54 AM UTC-7, David Joyner wrote:
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>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:58 PM, bsmile <[email protected]> wrote: 
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>> > On Monday, August 20, 2012 11:30:17 AM UTC-5, David Joyner wrote: 
>> >> 
>> >> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:46 AM, bsmile <[email protected]> wrote: 
>> >> > Thanks, Volker, This is by far I can get by studying the manual and 
>> help 
>> >> > document. But I still cannot get the corresponding irreducible 
>> matrix 
>> >> > representations, and to which group element each representation and 
>> >> > character correspond to. Can you help me further on it? I was told 
>> from 
>> >> > GAP 
>> >> > forum that SAGE is able to give matrix representation in real 
>> numbers, I 
>> >> > hope I can successfully achieve this with SAGE. 
>> >> > 
>> >> 
>> >> Do you mean this 
>> >> http://www.gap-system.org/Packages/repsn.html ? 
>> >> 
>> > Sorry, I don't know which package it is, but the command would be 
>> something 
>> > like the following in GAP to get irreducible matrix representations 
>> > 
>> > gap> gr := SymmetricGroup(4);; 
>> > gap> reps := IrreducibleRepresentations(gr);; 
>> > gap> List(gr,x->[x,x^reps[3]]); 
>>
>> You might want to look at the documentation of that package. 
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>> > 
>> >> > 
>> >> > 
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>> >> > 
>> >> > On Monday, August 20, 2012 12:17:50 AM UTC-5, Volker Braun wrote: 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> sage: S7 = SymmetricGroup(7) 
>> >> >> sage: S7.character_table() 
>> >> >> [ 1 -1  1 -1  1 -1  1  1 -1  1 -1  1 -1 -1  1] 
>> >> >> [ 6 -4  2  0  3 -1 -1  0 -2  0  1  1  1  0 -1] 
>> >> >> [14 -6  2 -2  2  0  2 -1  0  0  0 -1 -1  1  0] 
>> >> >> [14 -4  2  0 -1 -1 -1  2  2  0 -1 -1  1  0  0] 
>> >> >> [15 -5 -1  3  3  1 -1  0 -1 -1 -1  0  0  0  1] 
>> >> >> [35 -5 -1 -1 -1  1 -1 -1  1  1  1  0  0 -1  0] 
>> >> >> [21 -1  1  3 -3 -1  1  0  1 -1  1  1 -1  0  0] 
>> >> >> [21  1  1 -3 -3  1  1  0 -1 -1 -1  1  1  0  0] 
>> >> >> [20  0 -4  0  2  0  2  2  0  0  0  0  0  0 -1] 
>> >> >> [35  5 -1  1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1  1 -1  0  0  1  0] 
>> >> >> [14  4  2  0 -1  1 -1  2 -2  0  1 -1 -1  0  0] 
>> >> >> [15  5 -1 -3  3 -1 -1  0  1 -1  1  0  0  0  1] 
>> >> >> [14  6  2  2  2  0  2 -1  0  0  0 -1  1 -1  0] 
>> >> >> [ 6  4  2  0  3  1 -1  0  2  0 -1  1 -1  0 -1] 
>> >> >> [ 1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1] 
>> >> >> sage: S7.irreducible_characters()[4] 
>> >> >> Character of Symmetric group of order 7! as a permutation group 
>> >> >> sage: list(_) 
>> >> >> [15, -5, -1, 3, 3, 1, -1, 0, -1, -1, -1, 0, 0, 0, 1] 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> On Monday, August 20, 2012 12:51:04 AM UTC-4, bsmile wrote: 
>> >> >>> 
>> >> >>> I need to calculate very simple properties of the symmetric group, 
>> say 
>> >> >>> list group elements, their characters and irreducible 
>> representations. 
>> >> >>> Would 
>> >> >>> you please let me know the related commands to achieve these 
>> goals? 
>> >> >>> Thank 
>> >> >>> you very much!!
>>
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> I don't know much about this aspect of Sage, but you can also try this:
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>     sage: rep = SymmetricGroupRepresentation([3,1])
>
> Now rep is the representation of S_4 (since 4=3+1) corresponding to the 
> partition [3,1]. We can compute find the matrix associated to each element 
> of S_4:
>
>     sage: rep([1,4,3,2])
>     [ 1  0  0]
>     [ 1 -1  1]
>     [ 0  0  1]
>     sage: REPS = [(x,rep(x)) for x in S4.list()]
>
> This defines REPS to be a list of pairs, (elt of S_4, corresponding 
> matrix).
>
> Is that the sort of thing you want?
>

Thanks for your response. It's close, but not quite. It seems the way you 
pointed out does give a 3D irreducible matrix representation for S4. But 
how can I get the 2D irreducible matrix representation for S4?

>
> -- 
> John
>
>

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