GAP package Nilmat

Computing with nilpotent matrix groups

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Authors

Alla Detinko, Bettina Eick, Dane Flannery

Short Description

The Nilmat package contains methods for checking whether a finitely generated matrix group over a finite field or the field of rational numbers is nilpotent, methods for computing with such nilpotent matrix groups and methods for contructing important classes of such nilpotent matrix groups.

Version

Current version number 1.2   (Released 10/08/2007)

Status

accepted    (communicated by Derek Holt, accepted 09/08/2007)

Dependencies

GAP version: >=4.4
Needed other packages: Polenta(>=1,0),

Online documentation

Nilmat: [ HTML] version   [ PDF] version  

Download

[README]    nilmat-1.2[.zoo  (352K)]   [.tar.gz  (328K)]   [-win.zip  (344K)]   [.tar.bz2  (300K)]  

Contact

Alla Detinko
Address:
Department of Mathematics
National University of Ireland, Galway
University Road, Galway
Ireland
WWW: http://larmor.nuigalway.ie/staff/adetinko.shtml
E-mail: alla.detinko@nuigalway.ie

Bettina Eick
Address:
Institut Computational Mathematics
TU Braunschweig
38106 Braunschweig
Germany
WWW: http://www.tu-bs.de/~beick
E-mail: beick@tu-bs.de

Dane Flannery
Address:
Department of Mathematics
National University of Ireland, Galway
University Road, Galway
Ireland
WWW: http://www.maths.nuigalway.ie/~dane
E-mail: dane.flannery@nuigalway.ie