[GAP Forum] problem with AutomorphismGroup

[Dmitrii (Dima) Pasechnik]

Hi Markus,

it indeed doesn't seem to work in Sage 4.8, for some reason, but does work
with Sage 5.0 for me.
Can you upgrade?

Thanks,
Dmitrii

On 25 May 2012 11:40, Markus Szymik <markus.szymik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Alexander,
>
> The error occurred while I was accessing GAP through Sage.
> When I use GAP directly from within a terminal, the problem disappears.
> Thanks a lot for pointing out that it should work.
>
> All the best,
>
> Markus
>
>> Dear Markus,
>>
>> For me, this works fine, both with default packages and without packages,
>> for example:
>>
>> GAP4, Version: 4.4.12 of 17-Dec-2008, i686-apple-darwin10.8.0-gcc
>> Components:  small 2.1, small2 2.0, small3 2.0, small4 1.0, small5 1.0,
>>             small6 1.0, small7 1.0, small8 1.0, small9 1.0, small10 0.2,
>>             small11 0.1, id2 3.0, id3 2.1, id4 1.0, id5 1.0, id6 1.0, id9 1.0,
>>             id10 0.1, trans 1.0, prim 2.1  loaded.
>> Packages:    AClib 1.1, Polycyclic 2.8.1, Alnuth 2.3.1, AutPGrp 1.4, nq 2.2,
>>             GAPDoc 1.3, IO 3.3, CrystCat 1.1.3, Cryst 4.1.6, CRISP 1.3.4,
>>             CTblLib 1.1.3, TomLib 1.1.4, FactInt 1.5.3, FGA 1.1.0.1,
>>             IRREDSOL 1.2, LAGUNA 3.5.0, Sophus 1.23, MIPLib 1.0,
>>             Polenta 1.2.7, ResClasses 3.0.0  loaded.
>> gap> AutomorphismGroup(DihedralGroup(8));
>> <group of size 8 with 3 generators>
>>
>> Which version of GAP are you using? How did you install it?
>> Could you copy-and-paste the exact GAP session where you have this error?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Alexander
>>
>>
>> On 25 May 2012, at 10:05, Markus Szymik wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dear Forum,
>>>
>>> I am trying to compute automorphism groups of p-groups,
>>> and GAP responds with an error message I don't understand.
>>> For example,
>>>
>>>      AutomorphismGroup(DihedralGroup(8));
>>>
>>> results in:
>>>
>>>      ...
>>>      RuntimeError: Gap produced error output
>>>      Function: number of arguments must be 1 (not 2)
>>>
>>> The command works fine for all groups of order less than 8.
>>> What is wrong here?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Markus
>>>
>>>
>>>
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