1 The LieAlgDB Package 2 -------------------- 3 4The package LieAlgDB provides access to several classifications of Lie 5algebras. In the mathematics literature many classifications of Lie 6algebras of various types have been published (we refer to the 7bibliography of the manual for a few examples). However, working with 8these classifications from paper is not always easy. This package 9aims at making a few classifications of small dimensional Lie algebras 10that have appeared in recent years more accessible. For each 11classification that is contained in the package, functions are 12provided that construct Lie algebras from that classification inside 13GAP. This allows the user to obtain easy access to the often rather 14complicated data contained in a classification, and to directly 15interface the Lie algebras to the functionality for Lie algebras which 16is already contained in GAP. 17 18 19 20 Authors 21 ------- 22 23The package was written by: 24 25Serena Cicalò 26Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica 27Via Ospedale, 72 2809124 Cagliari 29Email: cicalo@science.unitn.it 30 31and 32 33Willem de Graaf 34Dipartimento di Matematica 35Via Sommarive, 14 3638050 Povo (Trento) 37Italy 38Email: degraaf@science.unitn.it 39WWW: http://www.science.unitn.it/~degraaf/ 40 41and 42 43Csaba Schneider 44Informatics Research Laboratory 45Computer and Automation Research Institute 461518 Budapest 47Pf. 63 48Hungary 49Email: csaba.schneider@sztaki.hu 50WWW: www.sztaki.hu/~schneider 51 52 Installing the package 53 ---------------------- 54 55To install the package, move the archive file into the `pkg' directory 56in which you plan to install the package. Usually, this will be the 57directory `pkg' in the hierarchy of your version of GAP 4. (However, 58it is also possible to keep an additional `pkg' directory in your 59private directories, see section "ref:Installing GAP Packages" of the 60GAP 4 reference manual for details on how to do this.) Then unpack 61the archive file and that's it! 62 63 Bug reports 64 ----------- 65 66If you encounter problems, please report them via our issue tracker: 67 <https://github.com/gap-packages/liealgdb/issues> 68 69When sending a bug report, please to to include enough information so 70that we can reproduce the problem. 71