Dear Gap Forum,

Kurt Ewald wrote:

gap> g:=DirectProduct(A5,A5,A5);
gap> S:=Socle(g);
Error, no method found! For debugging hints type ?Recovery from
NoMethodFound

What happened?

GAP4.3 contains only methods to compute the socle of a primitive permutation
group. (The next release will contain a more general method.)

You can use `NormalSubgroups' to get a list of all normal subgroups and filter
out the minimal ones to obtain the socle.

Best wishes,

Alexander Hulpke

-- Colorado State University, Department of Mathematics,
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email: hulpke@math.colostate.edu, Phone: ++1-970-4914288
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