An Interface for using polymake in GAP
  
  
                               ( Version 0.7.6 )
  
  
                                  Marc Roeder
  
  
  
  Marc Roeder
      Email:    mailto:marc_roeder(at)web.de
  
  
  Address: Marc Roeder, Department of Mathematics, NUI Galway, Irleland
  
  
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  Abstract
  This  package  provides  a  very  basic interface to the polymake program by
  Ewgenij Gawrilow, Michael Joswig et al. [GJ]. The polymake program itself is
  not included.
  
  
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  Copyright
  © 2007 Marc Roeder.
  
  This  package  is  distributed  under  the  terms  of the GNU General Public
  License version 2 or later (at your convenience). See the file "LICENSE.txt"
  or http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
  
  
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  Acknowledgements
  This work has been supported by Marie Curie Grant No. MTKD-CT-2006-042685
  
  
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  Content (polymaking)
  
  1. Installation and Preface
    1.1 A few words about the installation of polymake
    1.2 Setting variables for external programs
      1.2-1 SetPolymakeDataDirectory
      1.2-2 SetPolymakeCommand
      1.2-3 SetPolymakeClientPaths
      1.2-4 Setting variables permanently
  2. Polymake interaction
    2.1 Creating Polymake Objects
      2.1-1 CreateEmptyFile
      2.1-2 CreatePolymakeObject
      2.1-3 CheckAppVerTypList
      2.1-4 CreatePolymakeObjectFromFile
    2.2 Accessing Properties of Polymake Objects
      2.2-1 DirectoryOfPolymakeObject
      2.2-2 FilenameOfPolymakeObject
      2.2-3 FullFilenameOfPolymakeObject
      2.2-4 NamesKnownPropertiesOfPolymakeObject
      2.2-5 KnownPropertiesOfPolymakeObject
      2.2-6 PropertyOfPolymakeObject
    2.3 Example: Creating and Accessing Polymake Objects
    2.4 Writing to Polymake Objects
      2.4-1 AppendToPolymakeObject
      2.4-2 AppendPointlistToPolymakeObject
      2.4-3 AppendVertexlistToPolymakeObject
      2.4-4 AppendInequalitiesToPolymakeObject
      2.4-5 ConvertMatrixToPolymakeString
      2.4-6 ClearPolymakeObject
      2.4-7 WriteKnownPropertyToPolymakeObject
      2.4-8 UnbindKnownPropertyOfPolymakeObject
    2.5 Calling Polymake and converting its output
      2.5-1 Polymake
    2.6 An Example
    2.7 Calling Clients
      2.7-1 PolymakeClient
  3. Global Variables
    3.1 Getting information about polymake output
      3.1-1 InfoPolymaking
      3.1-2 POLYMAKE_LAST_FAIL_REASON
    3.2 Variables for system interaction
      3.2-1 POLYMAKE_COMMAND
      3.2-2 POLYMAKE_DATA_DIR
      3.2-3 POLYMAKE_CLIENT_PATHS
  4. Converting Polymake Output
    4.1 The General Method
      4.1-1 Converter- Philosopy
      4.1-2 ConvertPolymakeOutputToGapNotation
      4.1-3 SplitPolymakeOutputStringIntoBlocks
      4.1-4 ObjectConverters
    4.2 Conversion Functions
      4.2-1 ConvertPolymakeNumber
      4.2-2 ConvertPolymakeScalarToGAP
      4.2-3 ConvertPolymakeMatrixOrListOfSetsToGAP
      4.2-4 ConvertPolymakeMatrixToGAP
      4.2-5 ConvertPolymakeVectorToGAP
      4.2-6 ConvertPolymakeBoolToGAP
      4.2-7 ConvertPolymakeSetToGAP
      4.2-8 ConvertPolymakeListOfSetsToGAP
      4.2-9 ConvertPolymakeGraphToGAP
      4.2-10 ConvertPolymakeHasseDiagramToGAP
  
  
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