SgpViz

SgpViz is a GAP package for (finite) semigroup visualisation.

Introduction

This is release 0.999.5 of the package SgpViz.

The features of this package include

• drawing the D-Classes of a semigroup and the D-Class of an element of a semigroup;
• drawing the Schutzenberger graphs of an inverse semigroup;
• a Tcl/Tk interface to specify a semigroup;

There is a manual in the sub-directory doc written using the GAP package gapdoc which describes the available functions in detail. The pdf, html versions of the manual are also available there.

The current maintainer of the package is Manuel Delgado mdelgado@fc.up.pt.

In many aspects the present package was superseded by the package “semigroups” by James Mitchel. I encourage you to use it instead of SgpViz. While there are some features not covered by the “semigroups” package, an effort will be made for keeping SgpViz working. If you have found important features missing or if there is a bug, I would appreciate it very much if you send me an email.

Contents

With this version you should have obtained the following files and directories:

Usage

The package shall be distributed with the main GAP archive. In this case, in order to use it you just have to start GAP and type

  LoadPackage( "sgpviz" );

For updates between releases of GAP itself or in case it is not distributed with the main GAP archive, check the package Web page

https://gap-packages.github.io/sgpviz/

For the development version, please visit the repository in GitHub (https://github.com/gap-packages/sgpviz/)

You may get SgpViz as a compressed tar archive (file name ends with .tar.gz). Use the appropriate command on your system to unpack the archive.

On UNIX systems the compressed tar archive may be unpacked by

tar xzf sgpviz-<version>.tar.gz

or, if tar on your system does not understand the option z, by

gunzip sgpviz-<version>.tar.gz
tar xf sgpviz-<version>.tar

which will in each case unpack the code into a directory sgpviz in the current directory. We assume that the current directory is the directory /usr/local/lib/gap-4.x.x/pkg/.

Installation

Important:

This package needs the package Automata (https://www.gap-system.org/~gap/Packages/automata.html).

You may have to start GAP with the -l option, for instance,

gap -l "/usr/local/lib/gap-4.x.x"

Then try the following

gap> LoadPackage( "sgpviz" ); 
true
gap>

Good luck!

If you use a LINUX system, you may have to, in order to save typing, write aliases:

in the file .bash_aliases (or something equivalent, maybe with another syntax):

alias gap='gap -l "/usr/local/lib/gap-4.x.x;"'

and in the file .gap/gaprc

LoadPackage( "sgpviz" ); 

In order to have automatic visualisations and not just to produce the dot code to be visualised by any other means, GraphViz (https://www.graphviz.org/) should be installed.

In order to be able to use a GUI to give automata or semigroups, Tcl/Tk should also be installed.

In other systems, there are equivalent ways to do the same.

SgpViz is free software you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For details, see the file GPL distributed as part of this package or see the FSF’s own site.