[GAP Forum] Array of ListPerm

[Christopher Jefferson]

There may well be better ways of doing this, but:


On 29 Jan 2009, at 09:10, Don King wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having difficulty in converting cycles to the list of  
> permutations.
>
> gap> s := SymmetricGroup(6);
> Sym( [ 1 .. 6 ] )
> gap> ConjugacyClasses(s);
> [ ()^G, (1,2)^G, (1,2)(3,4)^G, (1,2)(3,4)(5,6)^G, (1,2,3)^G, (1,2,3) 
> (4,5)^G,
>   (1,2,3)(4,5,6)^G, (1,2,3,4)^G, (1,2,3,4)(5,6)^G, (1,2,3,4,5)^G,
>   (1,2,3,4,5,6)^G ]
> gap> c := ConjugacyClass(s,(1,2,3)(4,5));
> (1,2,3)(4,5)^G
> gap> Size(c);
> 120

c isn't a list, so do:

l := List(c);
then
>
> gap> for i in [1.. 120] do ListPerm(c);

for i in [1..120]  do ListPerm(l[i]); od;

Note that won't print anything, do Print(ListPerm(l[i])) to see what's  
going on.

Chris

>
>>   (Syntax Error !)
>
> What I'd like to do is to get 120 list of permutations for above  
> formatted like [1, 3, 4, 5, 2, 6], [ 2,3, 4, 5, 6, 1],etc.
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated.
> Don
>
>
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