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This is a page on GAP 3, which is still available, but no longer supported. The present version is GAP 4  (See  Status of GAP 3).

GAP 3 Share Package "chevie"

The CHEVIE package

Share package since release 3.4, April 1997. (This has superseded the GAP 3 share package "weyl".)
CHEVIE has not yet been transferred to or replaced in GAP 4. You can use it only in GAP 3.

Authors

Meinolf Geck, Gerhard Hiss, Frank Luebeck, Gunter Malle, Jean Michel, and Götz Pfeiffer.

Implementation

Language: GAP 3 and MAPLE (see Home Page for possible versions)
Operating system: Any
Current version: 3.1 (in the 3.4.4 distribution)

Description

CHEVIE is a computer algebra project for symbolic calculations with generic character tables of groups of Lie type, Coxeter groups, Iwahori-Hecke algebras and other related structures. It is based on the computer algebra systems GAP 3, and MAPLE.

Manual

A CHEVIE manual is given in the chapters 74 to 86 of the GAP 3 manual.

Home Page

CHEVIE

Contact addresses

Meinolf Geck
Mathematical Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, AB24 3UE
Scotland
email: m.geck@maths.abdn.ac.uk

Gerhard Hiss
Lehrstuhl D für Mathematik
RWTH Aachen
Pontdriesch 14-16
52062 Aachen
Germany
email: Gerhard.Hiss@math.rwth-aachen.de

Frank Lübeck
Lehrstuhl D für Mathematik
RWTH Aachen
Pontdriesch 14-16
52062 Aachen
Germany
email: Frank.Luebeck@math.rwth-aachen.de

Gunter Malle
Fachbereich für Mathematik
Universität Kaiserslautern
Postfach 3049
Kaiserslautern
Germany
email: malle|at|mathematik.uni-kl.de

Jean Michel
UFR de Mathématiques
Université Denis Diderot - Paris 7
175, rue du Chevaleret
75013 Paris
France
email: jmichel@math.jussieu.fr

Götz Pfeiffer
Department of Mathematics
University College Galway
Galway
Ireland
email: goetz@schmidt.ucg.ie