#16059: Equality vs hash for braid groups
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Reporter: tmonteil | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.2
Component: group | Keywords: braid group, hash, Caylay
theory | graph
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Playing with braid groups for a demo today, i want to see its Caylay graph
in a neighbourhood of the neutral element:
{{{
ball = set()
ball.add(B.one())
for length in range(1,4):
for w in Words(alphabet=B.gens(), length=length):
ball.add(prod(w))
G = B.cayley_graph(elements=ball, generators=B.gens()
G.plot()
}}}
Hmmm, it looks locally like the free group, as if there was no relation !
`s0 * s2` is a different vertex as `s2 * s0`, while:
{{{
sage: s0 * s2 == s2 * s0
True
}}}
Indeed:
{{{
sage: hash(s0 * s2)
954209079
sage: hash(s2 * s0)
1883627875
}}}
There should be a canonical representation for elements in Braid groups.
At least, two equal elements should have the same hash. Currently,
`caylay_graph` answers something wrong !
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