[GAP Forum] CyclePermInt

Bill Allombert Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr
Mon Nov 1 13:12:54 GMT 2010


On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 11:26:23AM -0000, Adam James wrote:
> Dear Forum,
> 
> Sorry If I have missed this somewhere in the reference manual or online, but
> I came across some GAP code recently using the CyclePermInt function and
> can't figure out what this function does?

Experiments suggest that 
CyclePermInt(perm, i) returns the orbit of i under perm as a list
[i, perm(i), perm(perm(i)),...]

gap> CyclePermInt((1,3)(4,2,5),5);
[ 5, 4, 2 ]

Cheers,
Bill.



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