[GAP Forum] Question
Alexander Hulpke
ahulpke at gmail.com
Tue Dec 25 15:55:53 GMT 2012
Dear Forum,
On Dec 21, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Abdulsatar Al-Juburie <a.j.t.al-juburie at newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:
> I have a presentation of group G (Permutation group) and w in G.
> However, my question is that "there is any way in GAP to find w written as a product of generators of the presentation?"
The manual section
39.5 Expressing Group Elements as Words in Generators
explains how to do this (both a shortest possible word with much memory requirement, or a reasonably short word with less memory cost).
Merry Christmas!
Alexander Hulpke
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