On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Ursula Whitcher <urs...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > > I'd like to know H^3(G,Z) for two particular finite groups, namely L_2 > (7), also known as the Chevalley group PSL(2,F_7), and M_20, a > subgroup of the Mathieu group M_24 which is isomorphic to a semidirect > product of (Z/2Z)^4 with the alternating group A_5. > > Is Sage capable of these computations? If so, how do I express these > groups (or how should I start trying to express them)? If not, does
sage: G1 = PSL(2,7) sage: MathieuGroup? explains """ The Mathieu group of degree n. INPUT: n -- a positive integer in {9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 22, 23, 24}. OUTPUT: -- the Mathieu group of degree n, as a permutation group """ sage: G1.cohomology(3,p=0) computes what you want f the hap package is loaded (using sage -i gap_packages* - see http://www.sagemath.org/packages/optional/). For M20, you might want to use GAP directly. See http://www.gap-system.org/Packages/hap.html > anyone have a suggestion for a place to look this up, or another > computation tool I should use? > > Thanks! > Ursula > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---