Unipot is a package for GAP4 GAP4. The version 1.0 of this package was the content of my diploma thesis SH2000.
Let U be a unipotent subgroup of a Chevalley group of Type L(K). Then it is generated by the elements xr(t) for all r ∈ Φ+,t ∈ K. The roots of the underlying root system Φ are ordered according to the height function. Each element of U is a product of the root elements xr(t). By Theorem 5.3.3 from Car72 each element of U can be uniquely written as a product of root elements with roots in increasing order. This unique form is called the canonical form.
The main purpose of this package is to compute the canonical
form of an element of the group U. For we have implemented the
unipotent subgroups of Chevalley groups and their elements as
GAP objects and installed some operations for them. One
method for the operation Comm uses the Chevalley's commutator
formula, which we have implemented, too.
We are using the root systems and the structure constants available in GAP from the simple Lie algebras. We also are using the same ordering of roots available in GAP.
If you use Unipot to solve a problem or publish some result that was partly obtained using Unipot, I would appreciate it if you would cite Unipot, just as you would cite another paper that you used. (Below is a sample citation.) Again I would appreciate if you could inform me about such a paper.
Specifically, please refer to:
[Hal02] Sergei Haller. Unipot --- a system for computing with elements
of unipotent subgroups of Chevalley groups, July 2002.
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