On the orbit-stabilizer problem for integral matrix actions of polycyclic groups

Eick, Bettina; Ostheimer, Gretchen

doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-03-01493-5

On the orbit-stabilizer problem for integral matrix actions of polycyclic groups
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by Bettina Eick and Gretchen Ostheimer;

Math. Comp. 72 (2003), 1511-1529

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-03-01493-5

Published electronically: February 3, 2003

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Abstract:

We present an algorithm to solve the orbit-stabilizer problem for a polycyclic group $G$ acting as a subgroup of $GL(d, \mathbb Z)$ on the elements of $\mathbb Q^d$. We report on an implementation of our method and use this to observe that the algorithm is practical.

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