ApCoCoA-1:Dicyclic groups

Dicyclic groups

Description

The dicyclic groups are non-abelian groups with order 4n. For n = 2 the dicyclic group is isomporphic to the quarternion group Q. Note that every element of this groups can be written uniquely as a^k x^j for 0 < k < 2n and j = 0 or 1.

 Dic(n) = <a,b | a^{2n} = 1, a^{n} = b^{2}, b^{-1}ab = a^{-1}>

Reference

Coxeter, H. S. M., "7.1 The Cyclic and Dicyclic groups", Regular Complex Polytopes, Cambridge University, 1974.

Computation

 /*Use the ApCoCoA package ncpoly.*/
 
 // Number of Dicyclic group (note that  the order is 4N)
 MEMORY.N:=5;
 
 Use ZZ/(2)[a,b];
 NC.SetOrdering("LLEX");
 
 Define CreateRelationsDicyclic()
   Relations:=[];
   
   // Add the relation a^{n} = b^2
   Append(Relations, [[a^(MEMORY.N)], [-b,b]]);
   
   // Add the relation a^{2n} = 1
   Append(Relations, [[a^(2*MEMORY.N)], [-1]]);
  
   // Add the relation b^{-1}ab = a^{-1}
   Append(Relations, [[b^(3),a,b],[a^(2*MEMORY.N-1)]]);
 
   Return Relations;
 EndDefine;