[GAP Forum] problem with AutomorphismGroup

Dmitrii (Dima) Pasechnik dima at ntu.edu.sg
Fri May 25 10:56:24 BST 2012


Hi Markus,

it indeed doesn't seem to work in Sage 4.8, for some reason, but does work
with Sage 5.0 for me.
Can you upgrade?

Thanks,
Dmitrii

On 25 May 2012 11:40, Markus Szymik <markus.szymik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Alexander,
>
> The error occurred while I was accessing GAP through Sage.
> When I use GAP directly from within a terminal, the problem disappears.
> Thanks a lot for pointing out that it should work.
>
> All the best,
>
> Markus
>
>> Dear Markus,
>>
>> For me, this works fine, both with default packages and without packages,
>> for example:
>>
>> GAP4, Version: 4.4.12 of 17-Dec-2008, i686-apple-darwin10.8.0-gcc
>> Components:  small 2.1, small2 2.0, small3 2.0, small4 1.0, small5 1.0,
>>             small6 1.0, small7 1.0, small8 1.0, small9 1.0, small10 0.2,
>>             small11 0.1, id2 3.0, id3 2.1, id4 1.0, id5 1.0, id6 1.0, id9 1.0,
>>             id10 0.1, trans 1.0, prim 2.1  loaded.
>> Packages:    AClib 1.1, Polycyclic 2.8.1, Alnuth 2.3.1, AutPGrp 1.4, nq 2.2,
>>             GAPDoc 1.3, IO 3.3, CrystCat 1.1.3, Cryst 4.1.6, CRISP 1.3.4,
>>             CTblLib 1.1.3, TomLib 1.1.4, FactInt 1.5.3, FGA 1.1.0.1,
>>             IRREDSOL 1.2, LAGUNA 3.5.0, Sophus 1.23, MIPLib 1.0,
>>             Polenta 1.2.7, ResClasses 3.0.0  loaded.
>> gap> AutomorphismGroup(DihedralGroup(8));
>> <group of size 8 with 3 generators>
>>
>> Which version of GAP are you using? How did you install it?
>> Could you copy-and-paste the exact GAP session where you have this error?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Alexander
>>
>>
>> On 25 May 2012, at 10:05, Markus Szymik wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dear Forum,
>>>
>>> I am trying to compute automorphism groups of p-groups,
>>> and GAP responds with an error message I don't understand.
>>> For example,
>>>
>>>      AutomorphismGroup(DihedralGroup(8));
>>>
>>> results in:
>>>
>>>      ...
>>>      RuntimeError: Gap produced error output
>>>      Function: number of arguments must be 1 (not 2)
>>>
>>> The command works fine for all groups of order less than 8.
>>> What is wrong here?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Markus
>>>
>>>
>>>
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