README: rewrite it, it was rather out-of-date

[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.
+4. Add dimension bounds on any tests over AA that compute element
+   subalgebras.
 
-5. Factor out the unit-norm basis (and operator symmetry) tests once
-   all of the algebras pass.
+5. The rational_algebra() stuff doesn't really belong in classes that
+   don't derive from RationalBasisEJA or its as-yet-nonexistent
+   element class.
 
-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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+6. Add special det/trace method overrides for the algebras where we
+   know them? The only reason this might be tricky is because the
+   obvious solution is to subclass EJAElement, but then we might
+   collide with e.g. the Cartesian product element subclass.