Lists, Sets and Strings
Functions for lists This function has been transferred from package &ResClasses;.

It takes a list L of length n and outputs the list of length n-1 containing all the differences L[i]-L[i-1].

gap> List( [1..12], n->n^3 ); [ 1, 8, 27, 64, 125, 216, 343, 512, 729, 1000, 1331, 1728 ] gap> DifferencesList( last ); [ 7, 19, 37, 61, 91, 127, 169, 217, 271, 331, 397 ] gap> DifferencesList( last ); [ 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 54, 60, 66 ] gap> DifferencesList( last ); [ 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 ]
These functions have been transferred from package &ResClasses;.

They take a list L of length n and output the quotients L[i]/L[i-1] of consecutive entries in L. An error is returned if an entry is zero.

gap> List( [0..10], n -> Factorial(n) ); [ 1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, 720, 5040, 40320, 362880, 3628800 ] gap> QuotientsList( last ); [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ] gap> L := [ 1, 3, 5, -1, -3, -5 ];; gap> QuotientsList( L ); [ 3, 5/3, -1/5, 3, 5/3 ] gap> FloatQuotientsList( L ); [ 3., 1.66667, -0.2, 3., 1.66667 ] gap> QuotientsList( [ 2, 1, 0, -1, -2 ] ); [ 1/2, 0, fail, 2 ] gap> FloatQuotientsList( [1..10] ); [ 2., 1.5, 1.33333, 1.25, 1.2, 1.16667, 1.14286, 1.125, 1.11111 ] gap> Product( last ); 10.
This function has been transferred from package &RCWA;.

SearchCycle is a tool to find likely cycles in lists. What, precisely, a cycle is, is deliberately fuzzy here, and may possibly even change. The idea is that the beginning of the list may be anything, following that the same pattern needs to be repeated several times in order to be recognized as a cycle.

gap> L := [1..20];; L[1]:=13;; gap> for i in [1..19] do > if IsOddInt(L[i]) then L[i+1]:=3*L[i]+1; else L[i+1]:=L[i]/2; fi; > od; gap> L; [ 13, 40, 20, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 4 ] gap> SearchCycle( L ); [ 1, 4, 2 ] gap> n := 1;; L := [n];; gap> for i in [1..100] do n:=(n^2+1) mod 1093; Add(L,n); od; gap> L; [ 1, 2, 5, 26, 677, 363, 610, 481, 739, 715, 795, 272, 754, 157, 604, 848, 1004, 271, 211, 802, 521, 378, 795, 272, 754, 157, 604, 848, 1004, 271, 211, 802, 521, 378, 795, 272, 754, 157, 604, 848, 1004, 271, 211, 802, 521, 378, 795, 272, 754, 157, 604, 848, 1004, 271, 211, 802, 521, 378, 795, 272, 754, 157, 604, 848, 1004, 271, 211, 802, 521, 378, 795, 272, 754, 157, 604, 848, 1004, 271, 211, 802, 521, 378, 795, 272, 754, 157, 604, 848, 1004, 271, 211, 802, 521, 378, 795, 272, 754, 157, 604, 848, 1004 ] gap> C := SearchCycle( L ); [ 157, 604, 848, 1004, 271, 211, 802, 521, 378, 795, 272, 754 ] gap> P := Positions( L, 157 ); [ 14, 26, 38, 50, 62, 74, 86, 98 ] gap> Length( C ); DifferencesList( P ); 12 [ 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12 ]
This function has been transferred from package &ResClasses;.

It returns a random unordered k-tuple of distinct elements of a set S.

gap> ## "6 aus 49" is a common lottery in Germany gap> RandomCombination( [1..49], 6 ); [ 2, 16, 24, 26, 37, 47 ]
Distinct and Common Representatives distinct and common representatives These operations have been transferred from package &XMod;.

They deal with lists of subsets of [1 \ldots n] and construct systems of distinct and common representatives using simple, non-recursive, combinatorial algorithms.

When L is a set of n subsets of [1 \ldots n] and the Hall condition is satisfied (the union of any k subsets has at least k elements), a set of DistinctRepresentatives exists.

When J,K are both lists of n sets, the operation CommonRepresentatives returns two lists: the set of representatives, and a permutation of the subsets of the second list.

The operation CommonTransversal may be used to provide a common transversal for the sets of left and right cosets of a subgroup H of a group G, although a greedy algorithm is usually quicker.

gap> J := [ [1,2,3], [3,4], [3,4], [1,2,4] ];; gap> DistinctRepresentatives( J ); [ 1, 3, 4, 2 ] gap> K := [ [3,4], [1,2], [2,3], [2,3,4] ];; gap> CommonRepresentatives( J, K ); [ [ 3, 3, 3, 1 ], [ 1, 3, 4, 2 ] ] gap> d16 := DihedralGroup( IsPermGroup, 16 ); Group([ (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), (2,8)(3,7)(4,6) ]) gap> SetName( d16, "d16" ); gap> c4 := Subgroup( d16, [ d16.1^2 ] ); Group([ (1,3,5,7)(2,4,6,8) ]) gap> SetName( c4, "c4" ); gap> RightCosets( d16, c4 ); [ RightCoset(c4,()), RightCoset(c4,(2,8)(3,7)(4,6)), RightCoset(c4,(1,8,7,6,5, 4,3,2)), RightCoset(c4,(1,8)(2,7)(3,6)(4,5)) ] gap> trans := CommonTransversal( d16, c4 ); [ (), (2,8)(3,7)(4,6), (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), (1,2)(3,8)(4,7)(5,6) ] gap> IsCommonTransversal( d16, c4, trans ); true
Functions for strings This function has been transferred from package &ResClasses;.

The result of BlankFreeString( obj ); is a composite of the functions String( obj ) and RemoveCharacters( obj, " " );.

gap> gens := GeneratorsOfGroup( DihedralGroup(12) ); [ f1, f2, f3 ] gap> String( gens ); "[ f1, f2, f3 ]" gap> BlankFreeString( gens ); "[f1,f2,f3]"