From: Michael Orlitzky Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:38:29 +0000 (-0500) Subject: eja: add brute-force associativity test. X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.michael.orlitzky.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=857eeec29a9b89b0e4f711476771c935757fa8dc;p=sage.d.git eja: add brute-force associativity test. --- diff --git a/mjo/eja/eja_algebra.py b/mjo/eja/eja_algebra.py index af7d059..3b64ddd 100644 --- a/mjo/eja/eja_algebra.py +++ b/mjo/eja/eja_algebra.py @@ -452,6 +452,81 @@ class FiniteDimensionalEJA(CombinatorialFreeModule): for i in range(self.dimension()) for j in range(self.dimension()) ) + def _jordan_product_is_associative(self): + r""" + Return whether or not this algebra's Jordan product is + associative; that is, whether or not `x*(y*z) = (x*y)*z` + for all `x,y,x`. + + This method should agree with :meth:`is_associative` unless + you lied about the value of the ``associative`` parameter + when you constructed the algebra. + + SETUP:: + + sage: from mjo.eja.eja_algebra import (RealSymmetricEJA, + ....: ComplexHermitianEJA, + ....: QuaternionHermitianEJA) + + EXAMPLES:: + + sage: J = RealSymmetricEJA(4, orthonormalize=False) + sage: J._jordan_product_is_associative() + False + sage: x = sum(J.gens()) + sage: A = x.subalgebra_generated_by() + sage: A._jordan_product_is_associative() + True + + :: + + sage: J = ComplexHermitianEJA(2,field=QQ,orthonormalize=False) + sage: J._jordan_product_is_associative() + False + sage: x = sum(J.gens()) + sage: A = x.subalgebra_generated_by(orthonormalize=False) + sage: A._jordan_product_is_associative() + True + + :: + + sage: J = QuaternionHermitianEJA(2) + sage: J._jordan_product_is_associative() + False + sage: x = sum(J.gens()) + sage: A = x.subalgebra_generated_by() + sage: A._jordan_product_is_associative() + True + + """ + R = self.base_ring() + + # Used to check whether or not something is zero. + epsilon = R.zero() + if not R.is_exact(): + # I don't know of any examples that make this magnitude + # necessary because I don't know how to make an + # associative algebra when the element subalgebra + # construction is unreliable (as it is over RDF; we can't + # find the degree of an element because we can't compute + # the rank of a matrix). But even multiplication of floats + # is non-associative, so *some* epsilon is needed... let's + # just take the one from _inner_product_is_associative? + epsilon = 1e-15 + + for i in range(self.dimension()): + for j in range(self.dimension()): + for k in range(self.dimension()): + x = self.gens()[i] + y = self.gens()[j] + z = self.gens()[k] + diff = (x*y)*z - x*(y*z) + + if diff.norm() > epsilon: + return False + + return True + def _inner_product_is_associative(self): r""" Return whether or not this algebra's inner product `B` is