#19613: Implement basic representations of semigroups
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       Reporter:  tscrim             |        Owner:  sage-combinat
           Type:  enhancement        |       Status:  needs_review
       Priority:  major              |    Milestone:  sage-7.1
      Component:  group theory       |   Resolution:
       Keywords:  representation,    |    Merged in:
  semigroups,                        |    Reviewers:
        Authors:  Travis Scrimshaw   |  Work issues:
Report Upstream:  N/A                |       Commit:
         Branch:                     |  38529351ae5581559a6a33a6fc6fe825b974ef81
  public/representations/basic_implementation-19613|     Stopgaps:
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Comment (by tscrim):

 Replying to [comment:15 darij]:
 > Replying to [comment:14 tscrim]:
 > > Replying to [comment:13 darij]:
 > > > Wait, what? `TrivialRepresentation` does not inherit from
 `Representation`? This I really don't like. Particularly if you don't
 expose `self._module`, there should be no reason to keep the trivial one
 out of it.
 > >
 > > Why should it? They are completely different implementations.
 >
 > Implementations yes, but the underlying concepts should be of the same
 type. One of the next steps will be a direct sum of two representations,
 for example. You do want to be able to add a regular and a trivial
 representation, I assume?

 That is more about having a common API. Anyways, `Representation` and
 `TrivialRepresentation` will have a common ABC, so I think this issue is
 moot.

 > > > S4. In the `_acted_upon_` of `TrivialRepresentation`, does
 `_from_dict(d)` do the right thing when `d == 0` ?
 > >
 > > This will never happen as `monomial_coefficients` returns a `dict`.
 However, I do see a potential when acting on the zero element. I will
 check/doctest this.
 >
 > You multiply all the entries of that `dict` with
 `sum(scalar.coefficients())`. If this sum is 0, then it's suddenly a
 `dict` full of zeroes.

 `_from_dict` has an optional argument to check for removing zeros (whose
 default is `True`). So this isn't an issue.

 > > (I'm waiting for `7.1.beta1` to come out before I make any changes.
 You know as soon as I bump my Sage to beta0, beta1 will be released...)
 > I know that feeling :)

 It is just released in fact.

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