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The GAP
4 package `Polycyclic
'
==============================
Introduction
------------
This
is the package `Polycyclic` written
for GAP
4. It provides a
basis
for working
with polycyclic groups defined by polycyclic
presentations.
To have the full functionality
of the package available you need at
least GAP version
4.
5 and the GAP
4 package Alnuth
and its dependencies
must be installed.
The features
of this package include
- creating a polycyclic group from a polycyclic presentation
- arithmetic
in a polycyclic group
- computation
with subgroups
and factor groups
of a polycyclic group
- computation
of standard subgroup series such
as the derived
series, the lower central series
- computation
of the first
and second cohomology
- computation
of group extensions
- computation
of normalizers
and centralizers
- solutions
to the conjugacy problems
for elements
and subgroups
- computation
of torsion
and various finite subgroups
- computation
of various subgroups
of finite index
- computation
of the Schur multiplicator, the non-abelian
exterior square
and the non-abelian tenor square
There
is a manual
in the subdirectory `doc` which describes the
available functions
in detail.
If you have used `Polycyclic`,
and found important features missing
or if there
is a bug, we would appreciate it very much
if you could
report this via <https:
//github.com/gap-packages/polycyclic/issues>,
or by sending us an email.
- Bettina Eick <beick@tu-bs.de>
- Max Horn <mhorn@rptu.de>
Contents
--------
With this version you should have obtained the following files
and
directories:
- `README`: this
file
- `init.g`: the
file that initializes this package
- `read.g`: the
file that reads
in the package
- `PackageInfo.g`: the
file for the new package loading mechanism
- `doc`: directory containing the manual
- `gap`: directory containing the GAP code, it contains:
- `action`: actions
of polycyclic groups
and orbit-stabilizer
- `basic`: basic stuff
for pcp groups
- `cohom`: cohomology
for pcp groups
- `exam`: examples
of pcp groups
- `matrep`: matrix representations
for pcp groups
- `matrix`: basic stuff
for matrices
and lattices
- `pcpgrp`: higher level functions
for pcp groups
Installation
------------
Make sure that the GAP
4 package Alnuth
is installed
to have the full
range
of methods available
in polycyclic.
There are two ways
of installing the package.
If you have permission
to add files
to the installation directory
of GAP
4 on your system,
you may install polycyclic
in the `pkg` subdirectory
of the GAP
installation tree.
If you
do not, you can also install polycyclic
in
a directory where you have write permissions.
For general advice, see
also the GAP
4 manual about the installation
of GAP packages.
### Installation
in the GAP
4 pkg subdirectory on a Unix system.
We assume that the archive
file polycyclic.tar.gz
or
polycyclic.tar
is present
in pkg
and that the current directory
is
pkg. All that needs
to be done
is to unpack the archive.
tar xzf polycyclic.tar.gz
The tar-command has unpacked the code into a directory called
`polycyclic`
in the current directory. You can check
if GAP
recognizes the polycyclic package by starting GAP
and doing the
following:
$ gap4
[... startup messages ...]
gap> LoadPackage(
"polycyclic");
true
gap>
### Installation
in a
private directory
Let
's say you would like to install polycyclic in a directory
called mygap. Create a subdirectory `pkg`
in mygap
and move the
polycyclic archive into that subdirectory.
cd mygap
mkdir pkg
mv polycyclic.tar.gz pkg
cd pkg
tar xzf polycyclic.tar.gz
The tar-command has unpacked the code into a directory called
`polycyclic`
in the current directory. You can check
if GAP
recognizes the polycyclic package by starting GAP
and doing the
following. GAP needs
to be told that it should scan the directory
mygap/pkg
for GAP packages. This
is achieved by calling gap
with
the option -l. Note the semicolon
and the single quotes.
$ gap4 -l
';mygap/'
[... startup messages ...]
gap> LoadPackage(
"polycyclic");
true
gap>