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- From: ahulpke@math.rwth-aachen.de (Alexander Hulpke)
- Subject: Re: Group Theory Reference needed.
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- J. McKinney asked for a reference to a list of all groups up to a given
- limit. This question has several answers:
-
- Listing *all* groups of a given order can be very tedious since there might
- be lots of abelian groups of a given order, that can be obtained easily via
- the canonical decomposition in elementary divisors. Thus most references
- leave out abelian groups.
-
- A standard reference (that should be aviable easily) is
- Coxeter, Moser: Generators and relations for discrete groups,
- Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete Bd. 14, Springer
- that contains for example a list of all non abelian groups up to order 32.
-
- If you would like to set the upper bound higher I strongly recommend
- obtaining the group theoretical program GAP (aviable via anonymous ftp from
-
- samson.math.rwth-aachen.de
- dimacs.rutgers.edu
- math.ucla.edu
- pell.anu.edu.au
-
- and various other servers), that contains (among others) all groups up to
- order 100 and all 2-groups of order dividing 256.
-
- Included are also character tables of a wide range of groups, including all
- tables from the Cambridge ATLAS. The manual contains a more complete
- bibliography of group lists.
-
- The soon to be released (hopefully) version 3.2 will also include facilities
- for computing the character table of a given finite group, which would allow
- for a complete list of character tables of the groups up to order 100.
-
- --
- Alexander Hulpke, Alexander.Hulpke@Math.RWTH-Aachen.DE, +49 241 804551
- Lehrstuhl D f"ur Mathematik, Templergraben 64, RWTH, D 51 Aachen, Germany
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