On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 1:18 AM, davidloeffler<dave.loeff...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 6, 3:47 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>   * Galois theory and ramification groups for p-adic extensions (needs
>>     the previous features)
>
> I wrote a (very simplistic) implementation of Artin symbols and
> decomposition and ramification groups a few months back for extensions
> of *number fields*, so we have this via the canonical dumb algorithm:
> find an extension of number fields whose local extension at some prime
> is the p-adic extension you want.

Nice, thanks!

>
>> VII. Modules
>>
>>   * Sage has nothing for modules over Dedekind domains (except over
>>     ZZ): this is an extremely important building block for certain
>>     algorithms (e.g., arithmetic in quaternion algebras over number
>>     fields), so needs to get implemented.   I recently wrote code for
>>     general modules over ZZ, but it isn't in Sage yet.
>>
>> PROJECT: Finish modules over ZZ, optimize
>>
>> PROJECT: Extend modules over ZZ to modules over a PID
>
> Last week I wrote some code for Hermite form, which is the key linear-
> algebra step for this; see trac #6178. So we have free modules over an
> arbitrary PID (me) and arbitrary fg modules over ZZ (you), and
> combining these probably won't be very hard.

Actually, the code I wrote for "arbitrary fg modules over ZZ" should actually
work for arbitrary fg modules over a PID.  It was all written
generically, assuming
HNF and SNF algorithms.  Of course, it's untested so I'm sure when we test it
something will come up.

William

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> David
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-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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