All involutions of a permutation
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- Subject: [mg7336] All involutions of a permutation
- From: Wouter Meeussen Vandemoortele CC R&D <w.meeussen.vdmcc at vandemoortele.be>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 22:27:13 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
bored? then, for what it's worth, i built me a function that takes any permutation p as argument, and spews out a list of "involutions" or decompositions (permutations q : q^2==Identity, so that q r == p with r^2==Identity). Although the math is simple (once you get the knack), the programming in Mathematica turned out harder than 1 would guess. A much simpler function counts the number of involutions for each permutation p. Anyone who begs & screams long enough might (just might) get a copy. (;-)# wouter. NV Vandemoortele Coordination Center Group R&D Center Prins Albertlaan 79 Postbus 40 B-8870 Izegem (Belgium) Tel: +/32/51/33 21 11 Fax: +/32/51/33 21 75 vdmcc at vandemoortele.be