[1X7 [33X[0;0YUtility Functions Provided by the [5XCTblLib[105X[101X[1X Package[133X[101X [33X[0;0YThis chapter describes [5XGAP[105X functions that are provided by the [5XCTblLib[105X package but that might be of general interest.[133X [33X[0;0YFor the moment, there are just two features to describe, the generation of [5XAtlas[105X irrationalities from cyclotomic integers (see Section[14 X7.1[114X), and the generation of information about the group structure from identifiers of character tables (see Section[14 X7.2[114X).[133X [1X7.1 [33X[0;0YWrite Character Values in Terms of Atomic [5XAtlas[105X[101X[1X Irrationalities[133X[101X [1X7.1-1 CTblLib.StringOfAtlasIrrationality[101X [33X[1;0Y[29X[2XCTblLib.StringOfAtlasIrrationality[102X( [3Xcyc[103X ) [32X function[133X [6XReturns:[106X [33X[0;10Ya string that describes the cyclotomic integer [3Xcyc[103X.[133X [33X[0;0YThis function is intended for expressing the cyclotomic integer [3Xcyc[103X as a linear combination of so-called [21Xatomic [5XAtlas[105X irrationalities[121X (see [CCN+85, p. xxvii]), with integer coefficients.[133X [33X[0;0YOften there is no [21Xoptimal[121X expression of that kind for [3Xcyc[103X, and this function uses certain heuristics for finding a not too bad expression. Concerning the character tables in the [5XAtlas[105X of Finite Groups [CCN+85], an explicit mapping between the values which are computed by this function and the descriptions that are shown in the book is available, see [10XCTblLib.IrrationalityMapping[110X. Such a mapping is not yet available for the character tables from the [5XAtlas[105X of Brauer Characters [JLPW95], [13Xthis function is only experimental[113X for these tables, it is likely to be changed in the future.[133X [33X[0;0Y[2XCTblLib.StringOfAtlasIrrationality[102X is used by [2XBrowseAtlasTable[102X ([14X3.5-9[114X).[133X [4X[32X Example [32X[104X [4X[25Xgap>[125X [27Xvalues:= List( [ "e31", "y'24+3", "r2+i", "r2+i2" ],[127X[104X [4X[25X>[125X [27X AtlasIrrationality );;[127X[104X [4X[25Xgap>[125X [27XList( values, CTblLib.StringOfAtlasIrrationality );[127X[104X [4X[28X[ "e31", "y'24+3", "z8-&3+i", "2z8" ][128X[104X [4X[32X[104X [33X[0;0YThe implementation uses the following heuristics for computing a description of the cyclotomic integer [3Xcyc[103X with conductor [22XN[122X, say.[133X [30X [33X[0;6YIf [22XN[122X is not squarefree the let [22XN_0[122X be the squarefree part of [22XN[122X, split [3Xcyc[103X into the sum of its odd squarefree part and its non-squarefree part, and consider the two values separately; note that the odd squarefree part is well-defined by the fact that the basis of the [22XN[122X-th cyclotomic field given by [2XZumbroichBase[102X ([14XReference: ZumbroichBase[114X) contains all primitive [22XN_0[122X-th roots of unity. Also note that except for quadratic irrationalities (where [22XN[122X is squarefree), all roots of unity that are involved in the representation of atomic irrationalities w. r. t. this basis have the same multiplicative order.[133X [30X [33X[0;6YIf [3Xcyc[103X is a multiple of a root of unity then write it as such, i. e., as a string involving [22Xz_N[122X.[133X [30X [33X[0;6YOtherwise, if [3Xcyc[103X lies in a quadratic number field then write it as a linear combination of an integer. Usually the string involves [22Xr_N[122X, [22Xi_N[122X, or [22Xb_N[122X, but also multiples of [22Xb_M[122X may occur, where [22XM[122X is a –not squarefree– multiple of [22XN[122X.[133X [30X [33X[0;6YOtherwise, find a large cyclic subgroup of the stabilizer of [3Xcyc[103X inside the Galois group over the Rationals –this subgroup defines an atomic irrationality– and express [3Xcyc[103X as a linear combination of the orbit sums. In the worst case, there is no nontrivial stabilizer, and we find only a description as a sum of roots of unity.[133X [33X[0;0YThere is of course a lot of space for improvements. For example, one could use the Bosma basis representation (see [2XBosmaBase[102X ([14X6.5-1[114X)) of [3Xcyc[103X for splitting the value into a sum of values from strictly smaller cyclotomic fields, which would be useful at least if their conductors are coprime. Note that the Bosma basis of the [22XN[122X-th cyclotomic field has the property that it is a union of bases for the cyclotomic fields with conductor dividing [22XN[122X. Thus one can easily find out that [22Xsqrt{5} + sqrt{7}[122X can be written as a sum of two values in terms of [22X5[122X-th and [22X7[122X-th roots of unity. In non-coprime situations, this argument fails. For example, one can still detect that [22Xsqrt{15} + sqrt{21}[122X involves only [22X15[122X-th and [22X21[122X-th roots of unity, but it is not obvious how to split the value into the two parts.[133X [1X7.2 [33X[0;0YCreate a String that Describes the Group Structure[133X[101X [1X7.2-1 StructureDescriptionCharacterTableName[101X [33X[1;0Y[29X[2XStructureDescriptionCharacterTableName[102X( [3Xname[103X ) [32X function[133X [33X[0;0YFor a string [3Xname[103X that is an admissible name of a character table, [2XStructureDescriptionCharacterTableName[102X returns a string that is intended as a description of the structure of the underlying group.[133X [33X[0;0YNote that many identifiers of character tables (see [2XIdentifier[102X ([14XReference: Identifier for character tables[114X)) do not describe the group structure in an appropriate way. One reason for choosing such identifiers on purpose is that several character tables for isomorphic groups can be contained in the library, because the groups have different class fusions into another group. For example, the Mathieu group [22XM_12[122X contains two classes of subgroups isomorphic with [22XM_11[122X, and the identifiers of the character tables corresponding to these subgroups are [10X"M11"[110X and [10X"M12M2"[110X, respectively.[133X [4X[32X Example [32X[104X [4X[25Xgap>[125X [27XStructureDescriptionCharacterTableName( "M12M2" );[127X[104X [4X[28X"M11"[128X[104X [4X[32X[104X
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