[GAP Forum] Programming Question.

[Alexander Hulpke]

On May 4, 2010, at 5/4/10 10:49, German Combariza wrote:
> In the free group group
> f:= FreeGroup("x", "y");
> I have a element w. How Can ask to GAP if   w=x*(something) or y*(something).
> I need to split the word w.

If you want to split the whole word, you can simply access the internal storage via
LetterRepAssocWord(w)
which returns a list of integers. E.g. w=x^2yx^-1y^-1 would be
1,1,2,-1,-2

Best,

    Alexander Hulpke
 


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