Re: [GAP Forum] function UnivariatePolynomial is destructive

2005-08-02 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Dr. R.N.Tsai, Thank you very much for reporting this. This is already fixed in GAP 4.4.5, so please upgrade your system. Since you already have GAP 4.4.4, it is enough to get fix4r4p5 archive from the page http://www.gap-system.org/Download/upgrade.html Sincerely yours, Alexander

Re: [GAP Forum] RationalClass?

2005-08-24 Thread Alexander Konovalov
IsCollsElmsElms, [ IsGroup, IsMultiplicativeElementWithInverse, IsMultiplicativeElementWithInverse ], function(g,x,y) return y in RationalClass(g,x); end); Hope this helps. Best wishes, Alexander Konovalov On Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 5:19:14 PM R.

Re: [GAP Forum] jacobson radical?

2005-08-24 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Laurent, Please see the documentation for the RadicalOfAlgebra function. Sincerely yours, Alexander Konovalov On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 3:48:07 PM Laurent Bartholdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > i've seen there are no commands in GAP4 to compute the > j

Re: [GAP Forum] Constructing wreath products (and other things)

2005-10-05 Thread Alexander Konovalov
als can be found (some of them refers to a first course in algebra and not to group theory only, but they might be a good starting point): - http://www.gap-system.org/Doc/Teaching/teaching.html - http://www.gap-system.org/Doc/Learning/learning.html Sincerely

[GAP Forum] GAP Installer for Windows

2005-10-17 Thread Alexander Konovalov
/gap4r4p6.exe (45,4 MB): The core GAP system with optional components tools, htmie and xtom ftp://ftp.gap-system.org/pub/gap/windowsinstaller/packages-2005_10_07-15_11_UTC.exe (31,7 MB): A merged archive of all currently redistributed GAP packages Sincerely yours, Alexander Konovalov

[GAP Forum] LAGUNA 3.3.2

2006-03-03 Thread Alexander Konovalov
-system.org/Download/index.html The new version resolves a problem in compatibility with GAP methods for Lie algebras and essentially improves performance for computation of the normalized unit group in abelian case. Sincerely yours, Alexander Konovalov ___ Forum

[GAP Forum] LAGUNA 3.3.2

2006-03-04 Thread Alexander Konovalov
-system.org/Download/index.html The new version resolves a problem in compatibility with GAP methods for Lie algebras and essentially improves performance for computation of the normalized unit group in abelian case. Sincerely yours, Alexander Konovalov

Re: [GAP Forum] AppendTo problem with large strings

2006-03-28 Thread Alexander Konovalov
27;AppendTo1' and 'FileString' from the GAPDoc package by Frank Lübeck and Max Neunhöffer (http://www.gap-system.org/Packages/gapdoc.html) may also be interesting for you. Best wishes, Alexander Konovalov On 24 Mar 2006, at 17:23, Helge Ruddat wrote: Dear GAP supporters! I am

[GAP Forum] Experimental GAP Installer for Windows

2006-03-29 Thread Alexander Konovalov
-system.org/pub/gap/windowsinstaller/fix4r4p7.exe (16,6 MB) The procedure of installing this upgrade/bugfix is similar to the procedure of GAP installation from the exe-file. Best wishes, Alexander Konovalov ___ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http

[GAP Forum] LAGUNA 3.3.3

2006-04-05 Thread Alexander Konovalov
distributing LAGUNA under the GNU General Public License. Sincerely yours, Alexander Konovalov ___ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum

Re: [GAP Forum] Matrix Operations and saving cpu cycles

2006-04-10 Thread Alexander Konovalov
/ref/CHAP002.htm or view it with HTML browser (starting pages is gap4r4/doc/htm/ index.htm). Best wishes, Alexander Konovalov Im looking for a way to do simple matrix operations, specifically, swap one row with another & swap one column with another, also sums and product. I do not want to

Re: [GAP Forum] RPM package

2006-04-10 Thread Alexander Konovalov
y to see some possible improvements and necessary updates It would be interesting to know, if you will improve this spec file and will use it. Sincerely yours, Alexander Konovalov On 07 Apr 2006, at 20:53, Igor Schein wrote: Dear Forum, does anyone (un)officially maintain gap.spec

Re: [GAP Forum] Matrix Operations and saving cpu cycles

2006-04-12 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Laurent, thanks for your remark. Let me just add a few comments on it: 1) Dependently on the size of matrices and maybe other factors, another implementation could be more CPU time saving. For example, the following function swaps i-th and j-th row of a matrix mat and returns the resulting

Re: [GAP Forum] Browse package

2006-09-13 Thread Alexander Konovalov
ay be), whether the installer of Alexander Konovalov includes a WINDOWS runnable version of BROWSE, or will include it in near future. For this reason, among others, I use a separate SUSE/LINUX in parallel to WINDOWS/XP for such c based packages as for example GRAPE. There you can use Frank Lue

[GAP Forum] Experimental GAP Installer for Windows: update for GAP 4.4.8

2006-10-04 Thread Alexander Konovalov
/wininst/wininstr.htm (Russian version) For those who already these pages to install GAP 4.4.6 or 4.4.7, the update fix4r4p8.exe is available. Best wishes, Alexander Konovalov ___ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org

Re: [GAP Forum] Direct Product

2007-01-16 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Ian, I was trying to reproduce your computations, and, if I was following your way correctly, then Image(Embedding(GDirect,1),b); will not work because b belongs to the dihedral group of order 12 which is the 2nd factor of the direct product, not the 1st one. Thus, to embed b into the dire

Re: [GAP Forum] 2-groups

2007-02-26 Thread Alexander Konovalov
on is not trivial or easy to read. See the paper [Charles C. Sims, Computing the order of a solvable permutation group, J. Symbolic Comput., 9:699--705, 1990] for its description. Hope this helps, Bettina Eick, Alexander Konovalov ___ Forum maili

Re: [GAP Forum] How to construct a group algebra by generators using function Algebra(Field, generators) ?

2007-04-09 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Dong, you can construct the desired group algebra as follows: gap> GroupRing( GF(2), SymmetricGroup(3) ); See the description of the 'GroupRing' function at http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/htm/ref/CHAP063.htm#SSEC001.2 In your attempt to construct it using Algebra, first, z is a fi

Re: [GAP Forum] GRAPE

2007-04-18 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Alireza, On 02 Apr 2007, at 17:26, Alireza Abdollahi wrote: Dears I would like to know whether anyone has implemented a program under GAP/GRAPE to 1) calculate the Cromatic Number of a graph? Apparently there is no implementation of this, though this might be feasible. 2) produce a

Re: [GAP Forum] spin group, finite subgroups

2007-04-20 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Bartosz, currently there is no immediate function in GAP to construct the Clifford algebra. If I understood correctly what are you going to do, that maybe the first step should be to find out how to do this. I think you should be able to construct it using the AlgebraByStructureConst

Re: [GAP Forum] Diagrams

2007-05-02 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Breandán, in the UNIX environment (Linux, X11 under Mac OS, and may work also in Cygwin under Windows) you can use the XGAP package (http://www.gap-system.org/Packages/ xgap.html) to display the lattice of subgroups (all subgroups or with restrictions on some properties). Then you can r

Re: [GAP Forum] Need help with Lists

2007-06-11 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear GAP Forum, On 11 Jun 2007, at 14:45, muniru asiru wrote: I need help. While working with Gap, I came accross the following list of list of list with 10,3 and 7 items respectively. My interest is to REPLACE (please note) this list of list of list (a5, below) with a list of list so that I

Re: [GAP Forum] immutable --> mutable lists

2007-06-17 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Dmytro, 1) In your example, it is fine to use List(l, x->List(x)); Maybe I would use only the notation List(l, ShallowCopy ) to make more it more visible what's going on. 2) Besides this, if l is a matrix, you may use MutableCopyMat, that will use exactly List(l, ShallowCopy ) to produ

Re: [GAP Forum] bug with semidirect product?

2007-07-18 Thread Alexander Konovalov
/mailman/listinfo/forum ___ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum -- Dr. Alexander Konovalov School of Computer Science & Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computa

[GAP Forum] Experimental GAP Installer for Windows: update for GAP 4.4.10

2007-10-08 Thread Alexander Konovalov
/wininst/wininstr.htm (Russian version) For those who already used this installer for GAP 4.4.6-4.4.9 installation, the update fix4r4p10.exe is also available. The packages archive in exe-format was also updated last week. Best wishes, Alexander Konovalov

Re: [GAP Forum] Windows binaries for dynamic loading of modules

2007-10-10 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Forum, following the announcement of new experimental Windows binaries for GAP 4.4.10 with the support of dynamically loaded modules and, as a consequence, availability of packages Browse, Edim and IO under Windows, I am happy to announce the corresponding Windows installer: ftp://ft

Re: [GAP Forum] query

2007-10-31 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Arun, I am still in trouble and cant do the basic things. I have tried all the commands from the manual. I have two basic questions. I am working with GAP installed on my pc with Windows-2000. I am working on RXVT. Thanks for the relevant details, this helps to answer.

Re: [GAP Forum] cartesian product

2007-11-29 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Inneke, I can provide temporary workaround for this, which will work with GAP 4.4.10. This is expected to appear in one of the future versions of GAP. 1) Create a file "iterator.gd" with the following content (and observer the description in the comments (it has GAPDoc format, please ask

Re: [GAP Forum] how to build complex field using GAP?

2007-12-23 Thread Alexander Konovalov
in R; true gap> a^-1; 2/13-3/13*E(4) gap> b:=-1+5*E(4); -1+5*E(4) gap> a*b; -17+7*E(4) Hope this helps, Alexander Konovalov ___ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum

Re: [Fwd: Re: [GAP Forum] Help Configuring GAP Packages on iBook 900 MHz]

2008-02-08 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Jeffrey, I put some notes how to install some GAP packages on Mac OS X here: http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~alexk/gap/pkgmacos.txt Hope that they may help in your situation. Best wishes, Alexander On 8 Feb 2008, at 21:42, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: Hello, again, all! Thanks so much for

[GAP Forum] Brief GAP guidebook in Russian, version 3

2008-05-23 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear GAP Forum, I would like to announce the new edition (version 3.0.0, May 16 2008) of the brief GAP guidebook in Russian. It is available now in PDF and HTML formats here: * http://ukrgap.exponenta.ru/gapbook/gapbook.pdf * http://ukrgap.exponenta.ru/gapbook/chap0.html Technical details that m

Re: [GAP Forum] Associated Lie Ring of a finite p-group

2008-06-10 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Robert, For a finite p-group G, GAP can construct two other similarly defined Lie algebras, namely JenningsLieAlgebra( G ) and PCentralLieAlgebra ( G ). Type ?JenningsLieAlgebra or ?PCentralLieAlgebra in GAP prompt to see the description. Maybe one of those is what you are looking for

Re: [GAP Forum] question

2008-08-08 Thread Alexander Konovalov
On 6 Aug 2008, at 15:42, Elaheh khamseh wrote: Can i find the groups have only identity automorphism? Dear Elaneh Khamseh, In GAP, for a finite group you can construct its automorphism group and then you may see if it is trivial or not. For example, gap> G:=CyclicGroup(3); gap> Size(Automor

Re: [GAP Forum] fp groups

2008-08-26 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Vahid, On 26 Aug 2008, at 22:40, Vahid Dabbaghian wrote: Dear GAP Forum, In the following example I have computed an isomorphism from a finite group G to a finitely presented group and I would like to get the list of powers of generators of the elements in the finitely presented group

Re: [GAP Forum] XGAP and cygwin

2008-09-23 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Josef, dear GAP Forum, The question below seems still unanswered in the Forum, and I think posting an answer here may be useful for the Forum community even if Josef (I hope!) already solved this problem. Before starting xgap, first you need to build its binaries. Start Cygwin shell, go to

Re: [GAP Forum] Counting subgroups

2008-10-01 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Dr. Erfanian, dear GAP Forum, On 18 Jul 2008, at 17:48, erfanian wrote: Dear Gap Forum, I would like to know if there is a way to count all subgroups for given group G (finite and infinite) in Gap. Thanks in advance for any help and comments. Best regards, A. Erfanian. First, the fini

Re: [GAP Forum] Bug in modular determinant

2008-10-28 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Ángel, Thank you for reporting this. This is already fixed and will appear in the next release GAP 4.5. In the meantime you may use the following workaround, extracted from the GAP development version: InstallMethod( DeterminantMatDestructive,"nonprime residue rings", [ IsOrdinaryMat

Re: [GAP Forum] bug(s) in LogTo

2008-11-01 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Dima, thank you for your message. In the next release of the GAP system both LogTo and InputLogTo must recover properly from the break loop in case of trying to create a log file in a non-accessible place. Best wishes, Alexander On 16 Oct 2008, at 09:40, Asst. Prof. Dmitrii (Dima) Pasechn

Re: [GAP Forum] Some GAP question

2008-12-16 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Levie, Maybe the simplest solution to do it interactively for one triple is here: gap> elts:=[(1,3),(2,4),(1,2)]; [ (1,3), (2,4), (1,2) ] gap> conj:=[(),(2,3),(2,4),(3,4),(2,3,4), (2,4,3)]; [ (), (2,3), (2,4), (3,4), (2,3,4), (2,4,3) ] gap> List( conj, x -> x^-1*elts*x ); [ [ (1,3), (2,4

Re: [GAP Forum] Some GAP question

2008-12-16 Thread Alexander Konovalov
ing "x conjugated by y". I'm not sure if its y^-1 x y or y x y^-1 that comes out of that On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Alexander Konovalov < alexander.konova...@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Levie, Maybe the simplest solution to do it interactively for one triple is here

Re: [GAP Forum] TERMINFO

2009-01-15 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Anvita, dear GAP Forum, On 13 Dec 2008, at 04:42, Anvita wrote: Dear Forum, I have noticed the new line set TERMINFO=C:\GAP4R4\terminfo in the newly distributed file gap.bat and have the following questions about it: 1. Where can I find more information about the purpose of the en

Re: [GAP Forum] Permutation Notation

2009-01-26 Thread Alexander Konovalov
On 26 Jan 2009, at 12:20, Bill Allombert wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:31:02AM -0800, Don King wrote: Hello, I am wondering if I can convert a cycle into a different notation. gap> ConjugacyClasses(s10); . (1,2,5,10) .. For instance, above one represents a mapping 1->2, 2->5, 5->1

Re: [GAP Forum] Storing GAP codes

2009-02-09 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Hello Don, On 4 Feb 2009, at 11:59, Don King wrote: Hello, I am a newbie of GAP and a lot of things are not still familiar to me. Currently, I am testing some external GAP sources that are available in this forum. The problem is I have to type every same codes for testing the same program.

Re: [GAP Forum] RE: Forum Digest, Vol 62, Issue 2

2009-02-09 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Odilo Ndiweni, It is not quite clear for me what namely would you like to compute, but of course GAP can give you answer on a number of questions regarding subgroups and their elements. Just for a short self-explaining example I create here the dihedral group of order 8 as a permutati

Re: [GAP Forum] Questions

2009-02-17 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Sandeep, On 16 Feb 2009, at 06:45, Sandeep Murthy wrote: Hi. I have a couple of specific questions. 1. Is there a method that returns the inverse element of any given element of a group? Yes, use x^-1 to find an inverse of x: gap> (1,2,3)^-1; (1,3,2) 2. Given that the operation sub

Re: [GAP Forum] A plain set of objects

2009-03-04 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Levi, On 24 Feb 2009, at 07:35, Levie Bicua wrote: Dear forum, I'm wondering if there is a more efficient way of defining in GAP a simple set of objects without necessarily using the quotation marks for each element of the set. For example I want to define/write in GAP the set S1={ P

Re: [GAP Forum] coclass 2-groups

2009-03-31 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Siddhartha, On 31 Mar 2009, at 12:02, Siddhartha Sarkar wrote: Dear GAP forum, I am trying to access the group of order 2^8 which has the descripton : (1) it is of co-class 2, (2) cited as G_20 and from family 8 (in the paper by Baginski, Konovalov "On 2-groups of Almost Maximal C

Re: [GAP Forum] Question about Random Elements

2009-04-25 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Joe, the IO package by Max Neunhöffer has so called "real random sources". The IO manuals says: "It is an extension to the library mechanism of random source objects that uses the devices /dev/random and /dev/ urandom available on Linux systems (and maybe on other operating systems) p

[GAP Forum] HPC-GAP vacancy in Heriot-Watt University

2009-08-06 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear GAP Forum, further to two previous job announcements posted in the Forum earlier this year, there is now a vacancy in Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. The closing date is 28 August 2009. Full details are published at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/SP072/Research_Associate_-_Parallel_Symbolic_

[GAP Forum] Acceptance of the NQL package

2009-08-07 Thread Alexander Konovalov
HTML and PDF documentation. Best wishes, Alexander Konovalov ___ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum

Re: [GAP Forum] renaming generators of lie algebra

2009-08-14 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear R.N.Tsai, It is not possible to rename generators in this case since they do not have an attribute storing representation (IsAttributeStoringRep), while Name is declared as an attribute: gap> L:=SimpleLieAlgebra("A",1,Rationals);; gap> U:=UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra(L);; gap> g:=GeneratorsOf

Re: [GAP Forum] nullvector?

2009-08-24 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Hi Nasira, You may also use the function ListWithIdenticalEntries, for example: gap> ListWithIdenticalEntries(5,0); [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ] best wishes, Alexander On 24 Aug 2009, at 12:41, noemi...@gmx.de wrote: hi, how can i create an null-vector in GAP. is there any function in GAP? my soluti

Re: [GAP Forum] Loading Packages

2009-10-28 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Gabriel, Could you please clarify which package do you mean, since GAP site doesn't distribute a package called 'genus'. What exactly the error message is? Does the problem persist if you will unpack the package in the /usr/local/gap4r4/pkg/ or in /home/temp/Desktop/gap/ pkg/ ? Are all

Re: [GAP Forum] ZeroMutable for a group ring module

2010-03-24 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Max, dear GAP Forum, The description of Zero and ZeroMutable in the chapter "Domains and their Elements" of the reference manual states these operations as primarily designed to be applicable to additive elements rather than domains (only 'Zero' may be applicable to a domain, which has to

Re: [GAP Forum] GAP in teaching

2010-04-19 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Prof Borovik, dear GAP Forum, Certainly, GAP has a great potential to be used in teaching abstract algebra. The GAP homepage has "Teaching" and "Learning" sections, and while "Learning" is more about learning the GAP system itself, the "Teaching" page http://www.gap-system.org/Doc

Re: [GAP Forum] GAP in teaching

2010-04-19 Thread Alexander Konovalov
P.S. Apologies for the wrong link - of course, the "Teaching" page address is http://www.gap-system.org/Doc/Teaching/teaching.html and the link below refers to "Learning" page. Alexander Dear Prof Borovik, dear GAP Forum, Certainly, GAP has a great potential to be used in te

Re: [GAP Forum] Alignment problem for printing tables

2010-04-27 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Sandeep, dear Forum, On 22 Apr 2010, at 06:55, Sandeep Murthy wrote: > Hi. > > I've written a simple GAP program that prints a table of information > in 3 columns for a given group: > > 1st column - shows distinct orders of proper subgroups realized by the group > 2nd column - shows the nu

Re: [GAP Forum] List passing and access

2010-04-27 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Sandeep, dear Forum, On 1 Apr 2010, at 23:36, Sandeep Murthy wrote: > Hi. > > I have a question: is it better / quicker to pass a set of arguments to > a GAP function as a list, or as individual objects? > > Sincerely, S. Murthy. It may depend on several factors, maybe you can try to inve

Re: [GAP Forum] Libraries and tools for Lie rings

2010-07-09 Thread Alexander Konovalov
mail.gap-system.org > http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum -- Dr. Alexander Konovalov School of Computer Science & Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra University of St Andrews Tel +44/0 (1334) 461633 http://www.cs.st-and

[GAP Forum] GAP package simpcomp won Best Software Presentation Award at ISSAC 2010

2010-07-28 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Congratulations to Felix Effenberger and Jonathan Spreer (Universität Stuttgart) on receiving the Best Software Presentation Award at ISSAC 2010 for their presentation of the GAP package "simpcomp - A GAP Toolbox for Simplicial Complexes" http://www.igt.uni-stuttgart.de/LstDiffgeo/simp

Re: [GAP Forum] list of small groups

2010-08-15 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Vahid, There is a function SmallGroupsInformation that will be helpful to answer this question. You will see that the ordering may vary dependently on the order of the group, for example: gap> SmallGroupsInformation(256); There are 56092 groups of order 256. They are sorted by their

Re: [GAP Forum] bad bags

2010-08-29 Thread Alexander Konovalov
g > http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum -- Dr. Alexander Konovalov School of Computer Science & Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra University of St Andrews Tel +44/0 (1334) 461633 http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~alexk

Re: [GAP Forum] "Crc mismatch"

2010-10-04 Thread Alexander Konovalov
t of the Director's Income > > "Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals. > Well, except the weasel." > - Homer J Simpson > ---- > > > > ___ > Forum mailing list &g

Re: [GAP Forum] CyclePermInt

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Adam, dear GAP Forum, On 1 Nov 2010, at 11:26, Adam James wrote: > Dear Forum, > > Sorry If I have missed this somewhere in the reference manual or online, but > I came across some GAP code recently using the CyclePermInt function and > can't figure out what this function does? > > Regards

Re: [GAP Forum] List of available functions

2010-11-13 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Timothy, dear Forum, On 10 Nov 2010, at 19:46, Ivan Andrus wrote: > Perhaps GLOBAL_FUNCTION_NAMES is what you are looking for. > > -Ivan Andrus > > On Nov 9, 2010, at 3:52 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> I once brought up a list of available functions in GAP, >> but have forgotten what com

Re: [GAP Forum] GAP installation on Ubuntu?

2010-11-15 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Keith, On 15 Nov 2010, at 22:56, R. Keith Dennis wrote: > Hi. It seems that the GAP installation built-in to Ubuntu isn't complete > - not all packages are there (and the directory structure might be a little > different). That's true, since it is running using Debian packages. Most Debia

Re: [GAP Forum] GAP installation on Ubuntu?

2010-11-15 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Thanks, Bill, for the further advice, On 15 Nov 2010, at 23:43, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:56:04PM -0500, R. Keith Dennis wrote: >> Hi. It seems that the GAP installation built-in to Ubuntu isn't complete >> - not all packages are there (and the directory structure might

Re: [GAP Forum] IsMatrix

2010-11-22 Thread Alexander Konovalov
On 14 Nov 2010, at 04:00, Dr. Ashish Kumar Das wrote: > Dear all, > I am confused with the command IsMatrix. In GAP a matrix is a list of > lists of equal length whose entries lie in a common ring. But if I > type mat:=[[1,2,3],[2,3]]; and then run IsMatrix(mat); I get the > reply 'true'. Moreove

Re: [GAP Forum] Interface with other languages

2010-12-10 Thread Alexander Konovalov
On 10 Dec 2010, at 09:06, Max Horn wrote: > Am 10.12.2010 um 02:36 schrieb Hebert Pérez-Rosés: > >> Dear Forum, >> >> As far as I know, there is no way to compile a GAP program into an exec >> file, right? > > Yes there is (at least on UNIX type systems like Linux and Mac OS X; don't > know ab

Re: [GAP Forum] log_a b in floating point arithmetic

2010-12-19 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Ivo, On 19 Dec 2010, at 19:05, hedtke wrote: > Dear Forum, > > is there a way to compute log_a b in floating point arithmetic in GAP? > > In the Forum Archive I found two solutions, but they didn't work: > 1) there is a function LOG_FLOAT, but when I used it, GAP crashed. LOG_FLOAT is und

Re: [GAP Forum] Interface with other languages

2011-01-07 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Bartosz, dear GAP Forum, There are already several GAP packages that contain C parts and use LoadDynamicModule to load them, so probably to begin with you may have a look at them. In no particular order, these packages are: orb, linboxing, io, HAP, Gauss, FR, EDIM and Browse. Best wishes,

Re: [GAP Forum] Forum Digest, Vol 86, Issue 6

2011-01-17 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Sara, Have you tried the following: AutomorphismGroup( DirectProduct( AlternatingGroup(7), AlternatingGroup(7) ) ); - this works quite straightforwardly. May I also advise you the following: the Forum digest already says >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specif

Re: [GAP Forum] computerised exams for computer algebra courses?

2011-01-19 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Hi Dima, On 19 Jan 2011, at 06:05, Asst. Prof. Dmitrii (Dima) Pasechnik wrote: > Dear all, > > I will be teaching an "Experimental mathematics" (with elements of > computer algebra, and in > particular GAP) course next year, and > I am looking for sources/howtos, etc., on conducting computerised

Re: [GAP Forum] control the execution time of a function

2011-01-26 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Georges, On 25 Jan 2011, at 08:59, bolbita wrote: > Dear GAP Forum, > > I have little experience with GAP, and I wonder how can we control the > execution time of a function. > I dream about a function like > UnderTimeControl := function (f, arg, maxtime) > which would run the function f w

Re: [GAP Forum] cycle index and Polya enumeration

2011-02-01 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Hebert, dear GAP Forum, GAP 4.4.12 already has the non-documented function "CycleIndex" which you may use. It will become documented in the next release of GAP 4.5 as follows: CycleIndex( g, Omega[, act] ) CycleIndex( G, Omega[, act] ) The cycle index of a permutation g acting on Omega

Re: [GAP Forum] Subgroups of fp groups (was:no subject)

2011-02-01 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Rahul, You need to call "Subgroup" (enter ?Subgroup in GAP to see the manual). For example, gap> F:=FreeGroup("a","b"); gap> AssignGeneratorVariables(F); #I Assigned the global variables [ a, b ] gap> G:=F/[a^4,b^2,b*a*b*a]; gap> g:=GeneratorsOfGroup(G); [ a,

Re: [GAP Forum] GAP Installation

2011-02-02 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Shubh, You may install the computational algebra system GAP downloading archives listed at http://www.gap-system.org/Download/index.html following the installation instructions from the same page. If you are using Windows, an alternative installer is here: http://www.gap-system.org/ukrgap/

Re: [GAP Forum] GAP IRC channel

2011-02-02 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Keshav, Thank your for your request and willing to contribute to the GAP project. We will think of the suitability of an IRC channel and will contact you regarding this idea later. The GAP project does not have an official IRC channel, and the page http://www.gap-system.org/Contacts/contact

Re: [GAP Forum] x^y with Floats

2011-02-22 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Ivo, The GAP functionality for Floats is not documented and may be changed in the future. In GAP 4.4.12, to use x^y for floats, it's important to remember that x must be a float, otherwise an error will occur. To create floats, call Float with an integer to create a corresponding float, or

[GAP Forum] running GAP on Windows under Cygwin

2011-03-16 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear GAP Forum, We are working towards the next release of GAP, and it would be useful for our testing and planning purposes to know if anyone is using Cygwin in order to compile and run GAP on Windows instead of running GAP Windows binaries which we provide as a part of the standard GAP distri

Re: [GAP Forum] method ... matches more than one declaration

2011-04-05 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Igor, On 5 Apr 2011, at 07:34, Igor Korepanov wrote: > Dear Forum, > > We are writing our new GAP package called PL, which stays for > "piecewise-linear" topology and mathematical physics. As some functions > already work, I think we will make it available for public (support and) > crit

Re: [GAP Forum] method ... matches more than one declaration

2011-04-05 Thread Alexander Konovalov
e -l option was added because I prefer not to act as a superuser, > leaving this privilege to my wife), and then wrote > > gap> LoadPackage("PL"); > > there was *no more* such problem. > > So, thank you again, and the question is: what will you recommend me

[GAP Forum] Beta release of GAP 4.5 for package authors

2011-05-04 Thread Alexander Konovalov
should be taken, as reasonably expected while working with a beta version of any software. Best wishes, Alexander Konovalov * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ANNOUNCEMENT of the Beta release of GAP 4.5 for package authors Dear GAP Forum, There have been

Re: [GAP Forum] How to run GAP on Windows 7?

2011-07-12 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Daniela, so far we have no reports of GAP 4.4.12 not running in this configuration. To install it, you may try my Experimental GAP Installer for Windows: http://www.gap-system.org/ukrgap/wininst/wininst.htm (note that you have to download two executables to install both the core system an

[GAP Forum] Summer school "Advanced techniques in computer algebra systems development"

2011-08-03 Thread Alexander Konovalov
st: Parallelisaton - September 2nd: Departure day Main speakers - John Abbott (Genova) - Reimer Behrends (St Andrews) - Alexandre Borovik (Manchester) - Mickael Gastineau (Paris) - Max Horn (Braunschweig) - Peter Horn (Kassel) - Richard Jones (Kent) - Alexander Konovalov (St Andrews) - Steve L

Re: [GAP Forum] Creating example scripts

2011-08-24 Thread Alexander Konovalov
On 19 Aug 2011, at 13:07, Graham Gerrard wrote: > I would like to execute a small script as if I has typed each command > interactively. Is there an easy way to do this? > > Graham > __ Dear Graham, dear Forum, Basically, there are three alternative

Re: [GAP Forum] A question about Omega

2011-08-24 Thread Alexander Konovalov
On 11 May 2011, at 15:07, 刘建军 wrote: > Deat GAP Forum, > > For a p-group $G$. The attibute "Omega(G,p)"(37.14) can be used when > $G$ is abelian. > Let $G$ be a finite non-abelian p-group. > Is there a method to get the subgroup that is generated by all elements of > $G$ of order p? > > Best Wi

Re: [GAP Forum] (no subject)

2011-08-24 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Zeinab, dear Forum, On 20 Apr 2011, at 05:10, zeinab foruzanfar wrote: > Dear Gap > I am a question? > Let we have SmallGroup(order,n),how we can show finite group of > SmallGroup(order,n) in the form of > > For example finite group of SmallGroup(70,2). > Thanks for your attention You

Re: [GAP Forum] To use more memory for GAP

2011-08-24 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Vipul, dear Forum, On 18 Apr 2011, at 07:26, vipul kakkar wrote: > Hi!! > > I am using GAP on Windows OS. For large calculation i want to use "-o" to > enhance its allotted memory but i don't know how to use it for GAP in Window > OS. > Kindly help me regarding this problem. > > Thanks It

Re: [GAP Forum] (no subject)

2011-08-24 Thread Alexander Konovalov
On 24 Aug 2011, at 21:07, Alexander Konovalov wrote: > Dear Zeinab, dear Forum, > > On 20 Apr 2011, at 05:10, zeinab foruzanfar wrote: > >> Dear Gap >> I am a question? >> Let we have SmallGroup(order,n),how we can show finite group of >> SmallGroup(

[GAP Forum] 2nd beta release of GAP 4.5

2011-09-27 Thread Alexander Konovalov
care should be taken, as reasonably expected while working with a beta version of any software. Best wishes, Alexander Konovalov = Dear authors of GAP packages, Earlier in April 2011 we made available the first beta release

Re: [GAP Forum] problem opening caf2gap output in gap

2011-10-05 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Jada, GAP 4.4.12 is a system for computational discrete algebra - see http://www.gap-system.org/ and in particular http://www.gap-system.org/Faq/General/general6.html. Since you've mentioned caf2gap converter, I guess you are interested in the genome analysis software called Gap4 - see e

Re: [GAP Forum] Query regarding GAP windows installer and wedderga

2011-10-07 Thread Alexander Konovalov
.gap-system.org > http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum -- Dr. Alexander Konovalov School of Computer Science & Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra University of St Andrews Tel +44/0 (1334) 461633 http://www.cs.st-andrews

Re: [GAP Forum] Problems relating to the openmath package

2011-11-07 Thread Alexander Konovalov
this: > > /Applications/gap4r4/bin/i686-apple-darwin9.6.0-gcc/gap -m 256m -l > /Applications/gap4r4/ > > I got the following error message: > > Bus error. > > I cannot run GAP 4 at all now. I would appreciate some help. > > Sincerely, Sandeep. > > > > _

Re: [GAP Forum] a(n) integer

2011-11-20 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Lisette, This is an automatically generated error message coming from the following line of the C code in the GAP kernel: "List Assignment: must be a positive integer (not a %s)", where %s is substituted by the appropriate word(s), e.g: gap> l:=[1]; [ 1 ] gap> l[0]; List Element: must be

Re: [GAP Forum] Is this “loop” in GAP applicable?

2011-12-07 Thread Alexander Konovalov
On 7 Dec 2011, at 18:59, Mr. Sorouhesh wrote: > I am new (unskilled) in this software, the GAP, and wanted to generate for > example 4 groups as follows. Although the rules are used as it is its help; > I cannot see the 4 finitely presented groups generated. > > f:=FreeGroup(2);; > > a:=f.1; b:

Re: [GAP Forum] Is this “loop” in GAP applicable?

2011-12-07 Thread Alexander Konovalov
d you let me know this, please? Thanks, Alexander On 7 Dec 2011, at 20:25, Alexander Konovalov wrote: > > On 7 Dec 2011, at 18:59, Mr. Sorouhesh wrote: > >> I am new (unskilled) in this software, the GAP, and wanted to generate for >> example 4 groups as follows. Althoug

Re: [GAP Forum] Using package genss on Debian

2012-01-03 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Are IO and GAPDoc packages also installed - they are listed in genss dependencies? Best wishes, Alexander On 3 Jan 2012, at 06:18, Asst. Prof. Dmitrii (Dima) Pasechnik wrote: > On 3 January 2012 13:57, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: >> Le Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:37:57 +0800, >> "Asst. Prof. Dmitrii (Dima

Re: [GAP Forum] Using package genss on Debian

2012-01-08 Thread Alexander Konovalov
ore efficient advice. Best wishes, Alexander Konovalov, with inputs from GAP Support members. On 2 Jan 2012, at 04:02, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: > Hi. > > I'd like to use the generic Schreier-Sims package (genss) on my Debian > computer. But LoadPackage("genss"); fails.

Re: [GAP Forum] Correction: How to read loops from 1 file.

2012-02-09 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Lisette, dear GAP Forum, the file with integers is not a precise description of a standard format (what is the role of empty lines? how to specify comments? what to do if there is a text there? How to convert strings to GAP objects? Are there line breaks? etc.) and it is not recognised a sta

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