Re: Solve Equations over Finite Group
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- Subject: [mg13701] Re: Solve Equations over Finite Group
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 04:39:30 -0400
- Organization: University of Western Australia
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Alexander Craig Russell wrote: > Is anyone familiar with a mathematica package which allows one to solve > equations over a finite group? Given > > (1 2 3) x (1 2 3)^(-1) x^(-1) = (1 3 2) > > (in S_3, say) I would like the package to respond with x = (1 2). > > For general groups (described as subgroups of S_n) I would like the > same. Do such things exist? A step in this direction is the Algebra`FiniteFields` Package. Cheers, Paul ____________________________________________________________________ Paul Abbott Phone: +61-8-9380-2734 Department of Physics Fax: +61-8-9380-1014 The University of Western Australia Nedlands WA 6907 mailto:paul at physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://www.physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul God IS a weakly left-handed dice player ____________________________________________________________________