Re: representing the dihedral group
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- Subject: [mg99104] Re: representing the dihedral group
- From: obott0 at gmail.com
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:16:04 -0400 (EDT)
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What about simplifying the canonical forms even more? (a*b)^m * a = r^(m+1)*s = s*r^mod(-m-1,n) = (b*a)^k * b for some k, and also (b*a)^m = s*r^(m+1)*s = r^mod(-m-1,n) = (a*b)^k for some k