MATH769 AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL GROUP THEORY
| Course Code: | 2360769 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Mathematics |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Course Content
A short introduction to GAP, Group actions, Orbits and stabilizers, Stabilizer chains and their computation, The Schreier-Sims algorithm, Backtrack, Natural actions and decompositions, Primitive groups, Computing a composition series, Factor groups, Conjugacy classes, Complements, Subgroups, Maximal subgroups.