Hi,

> With Mike and Anne we are about to finalize an interface with lrcalc:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #10333: An interface to Anders Buch's Littlewood-Richardson Calculator lrcalc
> 
> The "Littlewood-Richardson Calculator" is a C library for fast
> computation of Littlewood-Richardson (LR) coefficients and products of
> Schubert polynomials. It handles single LR coefficients, products of
> and coproducts of Schur functions, skew Schur functions, and fusion
> products. All of the above are achieved by counting LR (skew)-tableaux
> of appropriate shape and content by iterating through
> them. Additionally, lrcalc handles products of Schubert polynomials.
> 
> The web page of lrcalc is:  http://math.rutgers.edu/~asbuch/lrcalc/
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

> lrcalc weights 500Ko (100Ko of C code + administrative files +
> mercurial repo). It's GLPV2+ with no dependencies. The code is quite
> clean and so far proved to be portable: we used it in MuPAD-Combinat,
> under MacOS, various flavors of Linux, and CYGWIN; tests on solaris
> are welcome!

One more argument for using it. Having it in standard Sage is a good step
toward getting rid of Symmetrica which often causes problems and is no more
maintained.

> lrcalc will progressively become a key low-level component for Sage's
> symmetric functions library. This evolution will be simpler if lrcalc
> is always available.
> 
> I therefore would like to cast a vote. Should lrcalc become:

Therefore:

> [X] A standard spkg
> [ ] An optional spkg

Cheers,

Florent

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