eja: add another big TODO item.

[sage.d.git] / mjo / eja / TODO

diff --git a/mjo/eja/TODO b/mjo/eja/TODO
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--- a/mjo/eja/TODO
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@@ -4,10 +4,30 @@
 
 3. Implement the octonion simple EJA.
 
-4. Factor out the unit-norm basis (and operator symmetry) tests once
-   all of the algebras pass.
+4. Override random_instance(), one(), et cetera in DirectSumEJA.
 
-5. Override inner_product(), _max_test_case_size(), et cetera in
-   DirectSumEJA.
+5. Switch to QQ in *all* algebras for _charpoly_coefficients().
+   This only works when we know that the basis can be rationalized...
+   which is the case at least for the concrete EJAs we provide,
+   but not in general.
 
-6. Switch to QQ in *all* algebras for _charpoly_coefficients().
+6. Pass already_echelonized (default: False) and echelon_basis
+   (default: None) into the subalgebra constructor. The value of
+   already_echelonized can be passed to V.span_of_basis() to save
+   some time, and usinf e.g. FreeModule_submodule_with_basis_field
+   we may somehow be able to pass the echelon basis straight in to
+   save time.
+
+   This may require supporting "basis" as a list of basis vectors
+   (as opposed to superalgebra elements) in the subalgebra constructor.
+
+7. Use charpoly for inverse stuff if it's cached.
+
+8. The inner product should be an *argument* to the main EJA
+   constructor.  Afterwards, the basis normalization step should be
+   optional (and enabled by default) for ALL algebras, since any
+   algebra can have a nonstandard inner-product and its basis can be
+   normalized with respect to that inner- product. For example, the
+   HadamardEJA could be equipped with an inner- product that is twice
+   the usual one. Then for the basis to be orthonormal, we would need
+   to divide e.g. (1,0,0) by <(1,0,0),(1,0,0)> = 2 to normalize it.