[GAP Forum] Announcing the Forms package for GAP

[Leonard Soicher]

Dear Forum Members,

It is my pleasure to announce the newly accepted Forms package for GAP,
by John Bamberg and Jan De Beule, and to thank them for this contribution
to the GAP system.

Forms can be used for work with sesquilinear and quadratic forms, objects
that are used to describe polar spaces and classical groups. The package
also deals with the recognition of certain matrix groups preserving
a sesquilinear or quadratic form. The main features of Forms are its
facility with creating sesquilinear and quadratic forms via matrices
and polynomials, and in changing forms (creation of isometries).

The Forms package can be downloaded from its GAP webpage:

http://www.gap-system.org/Packages/forms.html

where you can also find HTML and PDF documentation. 

Leonard Soicher
(on behalf of the GAP Council)