Dear Adam,

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that at this point you may want to use
GAP directly through Sage to do this sort of thing.  There are a few
regulars on this list who might know otherwise, though (e.g. David
Joyner).

Best,
- kcrisman

On Jun 8, 8:35 pm, Adam Sorkin <azsor...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> How do I define a group abstractly, via generators and relations? I
> have a family of finite groups to consider, which has a simple
> presentation, but no simple permutation or matrix representation (that
> I'm aware of).
>
> Specifically I'm interested in the double cover of A_n. I'd like to
> study it using a presentation for a double cover of S_n, but I'm not
> sure how to implement this.
>
> Adam Sorkin

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