MathOverflow Asked by Bernhard Boehmler on December 1, 2020
Let $k$ be a finite field with char$(k)=p>0$. Let $G$ be a finite group.
Consider the group algebra $kG$.
I would like to solve a given system of equations in $kG$.
Question:
Is there a computer algebra system that can solve a given system of equations in $kG$?
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you very much.
A partial answer in a very special case, but still possibly useful to record.
The search for idempotents in a group algebra can be simplified by using GAP's MeatAxe: https://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/ref/chap69.html
For example, if $G$ is the dihedral group with eight elements, and $F$ the field with eight elements, the following code verifies that $kG$ is indecomposable as a $G$-module, which means that the only idempotents are zero and one.
G := DihedralGroup(8)
k := FiniteField(8);
cayley := Action(G, AsList(G), OnRight);
reg := PermutationGModule(cayley, k);
MTX.IsIndecomposable(reg);
More generally, if $M$ is a MeatAxe module, you can compute a direct sum decomposition using
MTX.Indecomposition(M)
Of course, this doesn't solve for all the idempotents---it only returns a few. You can also use
MTX.HomogeneousComponents(M)
to break the search into smaller algebras before using a more brute-force method.
Answered by John Wiltshire-Gordon on December 1, 2020
As you say you have a given system of equations, you can do this by brute-force in GAP. The following constructs a group algebra $kG$ in GAP -- this one constructs $kG$ when $k = GF(4)$ and $G = C_2$.
G := CyclicGroup(2);
k := FiniteField(4);
kG := GroupRing(k,G);
The output is then
gap> kG;
<algebra-with-one of dimension 2 over GF(2^2)>
and, as expected, one can run commands such as
gap> Size(kG);
16
gap> Elements(kG);
[ <zero> of ..., (Z(2)^0)*<identity> of ..., (Z(2)^0)*<identity> of ...+(Z(2)^0)*f1,
(Z(2)^0)*<identity> of ...+(Z(2^2))*f1, (Z(2)^0)*<identity> of ...+(Z(2^2)^2)*f1, (Z(2^2))*<identity> of ...,
(Z(2^2))*<identity> of ...+(Z(2)^0)*f1, (Z(2^2))*<identity> of ...+(Z(2^2))*f1, (Z(2^2))*<identity> of ...+(Z(2^2)^
2)*f1, (Z(2^2)^2)*<identity> of ..., (Z(2^2)^2)*<identity> of ...+(Z(2)^0)*f1,
(Z(2^2)^2)*<identity> of ...+(Z(2^2))*f1, (Z(2^2)^2)*<identity> of ...+(Z(2^2)^2)*f1, (Z(2)^0)*f1, (Z(2^2))*f1,
(Z(2^2)^2)*f1 ]
Now to solve your given system of equations is easy by brute force.
Answered by Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda on December 1, 2020
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