[GAP Forum] permutations and transformations

[Sergei Haller]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, João Araújo (JA) wrote:

JA> Dear GAP Forum,
JA> 
JA> Is there any way of automatically translate the permutation (1,2,3) to the
JA> transformation
JA> 
JA> Transformation([2,3,1])?

something like that?

    gap> d := 5;;
    gap> S := SymmetricGroup(5);;
    gap> p := Random(S);
    (1,5,2)(3,4)
    gap> t := Transformation( List([1..d], x->x^p ) );
    Transformation( [ 5, 1, 4, 3, 2 ] )



Best wishes,

        Sergei
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