eja: append to an existing TODO.

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

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-1. Add CartesianProductEJA.
+1. Add references and start citing them.
 
-2. Check the axioms in the constructor when check != False?
+2. Profile (and fix?) any remaining slow operations.
 
-3. Add references and start citing them.
+3. When we take a Cartesian product involving a trivial algebra, we
+   could easily cache the identity and charpoly coefficients using
+   the nontrivial factor. On the other hand, it's nice that we can
+   test out some alternate code paths...
 
-4. Implement the octonion simple EJA.
-
-5. Factor out the Jordan axiom and norm tests once all of the
-   algebras pass.
-
-6. Create Element subclasses for the matrix EJAs, and then override
-   their characteristic_polynomial() method to create a new algebra
-   over the rationals (with a non-normalized basis). We can then
-   compute the charpoly quickly by passing the natural representation
-   of the given element into the new algebra and computing its charpoly
-   there. (Relies on the theory to ensure that the charpolys are equal.)
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+4. Conjecture: if x = (x1,x2), then det(x) = det(x1)det(x2). This
+   should be used to fix the fact that det(x) is monstrously slow in
+   Cartesian product algebras, and thus randomly in the doctests.