<p>This chapter explains the notation of the package <strong class="pkg">WPE</strong>, mainly influenced by the accompanying publication <a href="chapBib_mj.html#biBWPE">[BNRW22]</a>.</p>
<p>Let <span class="SimpleMath">\(G = K \wr H\)</span> be a wreath product of two groups, where <span class="SimpleMath">\(H\)</span> is a permutation group of degree <span class="SimpleMath">\(m\)</span>. The wreath product is defined as the semidirect product of the function space <span class="SimpleMath">\(K^m\)</span> with <span class="SimpleMath">\(H\)</span>, where <span class="SimpleMath">\(\pi \in H\)</span> acts on <span class="SimpleMath">\(f \in K^m\)</span> by setting <span class="SimpleMath">\(f^{{\pi}} : \{1, \ldots, m\} \rightarrow K, i \mapsto [(i)\pi^{{-1}}]f\)</span>. Note that <span class="SimpleMath">\(G\)</span> naturally embeds into the <em>parent wreath product</em>, that is <span class="SimpleMath">\(P = K \wr \textrm{Sym}(m) \geq G\)</span>.</p>
<p>Formally we can write an element of <span class="SimpleMath">\(G\)</span> as a tuple <span class="SimpleMath">\(g = (f, \pi) \in G\)</span>, where <span class="SimpleMath">\(f \in K^m \)</span> is a function <span class="SimpleMath">\(f : \{1, \ldots, m\} \rightarrow K \)</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">\(\pi \in H \leq \textrm{Sym}(m)\)</span> is a permutation on <span class="SimpleMath">\(m\)</span> points. We call <span class="SimpleMath">\(f\)</span> the <em>base component</em> and <span class="SimpleMath">\(\pi\)</span> the <em>top component</em> of <span class="SimpleMath">\(g\)</span>.</p>
<p>We can naturally identify a map <span class="SimpleMath">\(f \in K^m\)</span> with a tuple <span class="SimpleMath">\((g_1, \ldots, g_m)\)</span>, where each <span class="SimpleMath">\(g_i \in K\)</span> is the image of <span class="SimpleMath">\(i \in \{1, \ldots, m\}\)</span> under <span class="SimpleMath">\(f\)</span>. This yields a second useful notation for elements in <span class="SimpleMath">\(G\)</span> by writing <span class="SimpleMath">\(g = (g_1, \ldots, g_m; \pi)\)</span>. Note that we use a semicolon to seperate the base component from the top component. Further we call the element <span class="SimpleMath">\(g_i\)</span> the <em><span class="SimpleMath">\(i\)</span>-thbase component</em> of <span class="SimpleMath">\(g\)</span>.</p>
<p>Analogously, the subgroup <span class="SimpleMath">\(B = K^m \times \langle 1_H \rangle \leq G\)</span> is called the <em>base group</em> of <span class="SimpleMath">\(G\)</span> and the subgroup <span class="SimpleMath">\(T = \langle 1_K \rangle^m \times H \leq G\)</span> is called the <em>top group</em> of <span class="SimpleMath">\(G\)</span>.</p>
<p>With the above notation, the multiplication of two elements</p>
<p>In a permutation group we have the well-known concept of a cycle decomposition. For wreath products we have a similar concept called <em>wreath cycle decomposition</em> that allows us to solve certain computational tasks more efficiently.</p>
<p>Detailed information on <em>wreath cycle decompositions</em> can be found in Chapter 2 in <a href="chapBib_mj.html#biBWPE">[BNRW22]</a>. Chapters 3-5 in <a href="chapBib_mj.html#biBWPE">[BNRW22]</a> describe how these can be exploited for finding conjugating elements, conjugacy classes, and centralisers in wreath products, and Chapter 6 in <a href="chapBib_mj.html#biBWPE">[BNRW22]</a> contains a table of timings of sample computations done with <strong class="pkg">WPE</strong> vs. native <strong class="pkg">GAP</strong>.</p>
<p>We use the notation from Section <a href="chap2_mj.html#X7DF2AEBC8518FFA4"><span class="RefLink">2.1</span></a> in order to introduce the following concepts.</p>
<p><span class="SimpleMath">\(\bf{Definition:}\)</span> We define the <em>territory</em> of an element <span class="SimpleMath">\(g = (g_1, \ldots, g_m; \pi) \in G\)</span> by <span class="SimpleMath">\(\textrm{terr}(g) := \textrm{supp}(\pi) \cup \{i : g_i \neq 1\}\)</span>, where <span class="SimpleMath">\(\textrm{supp}(\pi)\)</span> denotes the set of moved points of <span class="SimpleMath">\(\pi\)</span>.</p>
<p><span class="SimpleMath">\(\bf{Definition:}\)</span> Two elements <span class="SimpleMath">\(g, h \in G\)</span> are said to be <em>disjoint</em> if their territories are disjoint.</p>
<p><span class="SimpleMath">\(\bf{Lemma:}\)</span> Disjoint elements in <span class="SimpleMath">\(G\)</span> commute.</p>
<p><span class="SimpleMath">\(\bf{Definition:}\)</span> An element <span class="SimpleMath">\(g = (g_1, \ldots, g_m; \pi) \in G\)</span> is called a <em>wreath cycle</em> if either <span class="SimpleMath">\(\pi\)</span> is a cycle in <span class="SimpleMath">\(\textrm{Sym}(n)\)</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">\(\textrm{terr}(g) = \textrm{supp}(\pi)\)</span>, or <span class="SimpleMath">\(|\textrm{terr}(g)| = 1\)</span>.</p>
<p><span class="SimpleMath">\(\bf{Example:}\)</span> For example, if we consider the wreath product <span class="SimpleMath">\( \textrm{Sym}(4) \wr \textrm{Sym}(5) \)</span>, the element</p>
<p>is a wreath cycle as described in the second case. Moreover, these elements are disjoint and thus commute.</p>
<p><span class="SimpleMath">\(\bf{Theorem:}\)</span> Every element of <span class="SimpleMath">\(G\)</span> can be written as a finite product of disjoint wreath cycles in <span class="SimpleMath">\(P\)</span>. This decomposition is unique up to ordering of the factors. We call such a decomposition a <em>wreath cycle decomposition</em>.</p>
<p>We use the notation from Section <a href="chap2_mj.html#X7DF2AEBC8518FFA4"><span class="RefLink">2.1</span></a> in order to introduce the following concepts.</p>
<p>The main motivation for introducing the concept of <em>sparse wreath cycles</em> is the efficient computation of centralisers of wreath product elements. Simply put, we compute the centraliser <span class="SimpleMath">\(C_G(g)\)</span> of an arbitrary element <span class="SimpleMath">\(g \in P\)</span> in <span class="SimpleMath">\(G\)</span> by conjugating it in <span class="SimpleMath">\(P\)</span> to a restricted representative <span class="SimpleMath">\(h = g^c \in P\)</span>, computing the centraliser of <span class="SimpleMath">\(h\)</span> in <span class="SimpleMath">\(G\)</span> and then conjugating it back. The wreath cycle decomposition of the representative <span class="SimpleMath">\(h\)</span> consists only of sparse wreath cycles.</p>
<p>More information on <em>sparse wreath cycles</em> and centralisers of wreath product elements can be found in Chapter 5 in <a href="chapBib_mj.html#biBWPE">[BNRW22]</a>.</p>
<p><span class="SimpleMath">\(\bf{Definition:}\)</span> We say that a wreath cycle <span class="SimpleMath">\(g = (g_1, \ldots, g_m; \pi) \in G\)</span> is a <em>sparse wreath cycle</em>, if there exists an <span class="SimpleMath">\(i_0\)</span> such that <span class="SimpleMath">\(g_i = 1\)</span> for all <span class="SimpleMath">\(i \neq i_0\)</span>.</p>
<p><span class="SimpleMath">\(\bf{Example:}\)</span> For example, if we consider the wreath product <span class="SimpleMath">\( \textrm{Sym}(4) \wr \textrm{Sym}(5) \)</span>, the element</p>
<p>A very important invariant under conjugation is the <em>yade</em> of a wreath cycle.</p>
<p><span class="SimpleMath">\(\bf{Definition:}\)</span> For a wreath cycle <span class="SimpleMath">\(g = (f, \pi) \in G\)</span> and a point <span class="SimpleMath">\(i \in \textrm{terr}(g)\)</span> we define the <em>yade</em> of <span class="SimpleMath">\(g\)</span> in <span class="SimpleMath">\(i\)</span> as</p>
<p>Up to conjugacy, the yade is independent under the chosen evaluation point <span class="SimpleMath">\(i\)</span>. Moreover, wreath cycles are conjugate over <span class="SimpleMath">\(G\)</span> if and only if the top components are conjugate over <span class="SimpleMath">\(H\)</span> and the yades are conjugate over <span class="SimpleMath">\(K\)</span>. More specific, we can conjugate a wreath cycle <span class="SimpleMath">\(g\)</span> to a sparse wreath cycle <span class="SimpleMath">\(h\)</span> such that the <span class="SimpleMath">\(i\)</span>-thbase component of <span class="SimpleMath">\(h\)</span> contains the yade of <span class="SimpleMath">\(g\)</span> in <span class="SimpleMath">\(i\)</span>. This leads to the following result.</p>
<p><span class="SimpleMath">\(\bf{Theorem:}\)</span> Every element <span class="SimpleMath">\(g \in P\)</span> can be conjugated by some <span class="SimpleMath">\(c \in K^m \times \langle 1_H \rangle \leq P\)</span> to an element <span class="SimpleMath">\(h = g^c \in P\)</span> such that the wreath cycle decomposition of <span class="SimpleMath">\(h\)</span> consists only of sparse wreath cycles.</p>
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