MATH769 AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL GROUP THEORY
| Course Code: |
2360769 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
6.0 |
| Department: |
Mathematics |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
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.
