61.6 DCE Words

As indicated in section Mathematical Introduction, the relators and subgroup generators are specified as elements of the free product, K*F_X which is to say products of elements of K and generators from X (and their inverses). These are represented in GAP as DCE Words, created using the DCEWord function. This is called as DCEWord(K, l) where l is an element of K, a word in abstract generators or a list of these. DCE Words are in GroupElements and can be multiplied (when the groups K match), inverted, raised to powers and so forth.

Note that the abstract generators are used here simply as place-holders. Although, in general, creating abstract generators with AbstractGenerator rather than FreeGroup is a bad idea, it will not cause problems here. A new version of this package will be produced for GAP 4 which will avoid this problem.

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GAP 3.4.4
April 1997