v0.4.0

GenericCharacterTables v0.4.0

Diff since v0.3.2

Merged pull requests:

• added basic ring interface for generic cyclotomics (#82) (@SoongNoonien)
• [Backport 0.2] Make compatible with Abstractalgebra 0.42 (#91) (@lgoettgens)
• Update CI.yml (#92) (@lgoettgens)
• rationalized 2B2 (#93) (@SoongNoonien)
• rationalized 2G2 (#95) (@SoongNoonien)
• fix typo (#96) (@SoongNoonien)
• rationalized 2F4 (#97) (@SoongNoonien)
• improve show for generic characters (#99) (@fingolfin)
• Fix and improve print_decomposition (#101) (@fingolfin)
• Print exception more nicely (#102) (@fingolfin)
• Add OSCAR book example (#104) (@fingolfin)
• Misc changes (#106) (@fingolfin)
• Remove setindex! method for CharTable (#107) (@fingolfin)
• Add tensor_product method (#108) (@fingolfin)
• CI: stop testing for invalidations (#109) (@fingolfin)
• Add tensor_product docstring (#112) (@fingolfin)
• Add bibliography to the manual (#116) (@fingolfin)
• rename scalar to scalar_product (#118) (@SoongNoonien)
• add omega as a save alternative to omega! (#119) (@SoongNoonien)
• don't rely on * in tensor! (#120) (@SoongNoonien)
• replaced unsave speccharparam! by specialize (#121) (@SoongNoonien)
• fixed var_shift for CycloFrac (#122) (@SoongNoonien)
• don't use setindex! for CharTable in specclassparam! (#123) (@SoongNoonien)
• don't assume parameter name (#124) (@SoongNoonien)
• increase code coverage (#125) (@SoongNoonien)
• fixed lincomb for SimpleGenericCharacter (#126) (@SoongNoonien)
• minor doc fixes (#127) (@SoongNoonien)
• CI: re-enable tests against Julia 1.6 (#128) (@fingolfin)
• added GenericCycloFrac using GenericCyclo (#131) (@SoongNoonien)
• Remove Arith.jl (#132) (@SoongNoonien)
• fixed typo in evaluate for GenericCyclo (#133) (@SoongNoonien)
• added missing division methods for GenericCyclo (#134) (@SoongNoonien)
• added a div method for GenericCyclo and UPoly (#135) (@SoongNoonien)
• fixed shrink for GenricCycloFrac (#136) (@SoongNoonien)
• use divexact for omega (#137) (@SoongNoonien)
• store congruence in GenericCycloRing for all tables (#138) (@SoongNoonien)
• completely move congruence to GenericCycloRing (#139) (@SoongNoonien)
• use GenericCyclo in base version of nesum (#140) (@SoongNoonien)
• allow coercion of GenericCharacter (#141) (@SoongNoonien)
• make congruence integral (#142) (@SoongNoonien)
• allow setting multiple congruences (#143) (@SoongNoonien)
• use new methods in setcongruence test (#144) (@SoongNoonien)
• move deprecated functions into a separate file (#145) (@SoongNoonien)
• document setcongruence (#146) (@SoongNoonien)
• added docstrings to all structs (#147) (@SoongNoonien)
• fixed ishalf (#148) (@SoongNoonien)
• improve type stability (#149) (@SoongNoonien)
• remove some unneeded code (#150) (@SoongNoonien)
• use @alias macro (#152) (@SoongNoonien)
• Remove print_decomposition (#154) (@fingolfin)
• improve exception simplification (#155) (@SoongNoonien)
• add missing methods for AbstractGenericCharacter (#157) (@SoongNoonien)
• remove unneeded index checks in Show.jl (#163) (@SoongNoonien)
• Move exports into a single file, export degree (#165) (@fingolfin)
• Add params(chi::AbstractGenericCharacter) (#167) (@fingolfin)
• Replace printinfotab by info (#169) (@SoongNoonien)
• Remove status(::Table) replaced by show(::Table) (#170) (@SoongNoonien)
• Move some GenericCharacter code to a separate file (#171) (@SoongNoonien)
• Remove functions changing the number of generic characters in a table (#172) (@SoongNoonien)
• Replace chartypes and irrchartypes by length (#173) (@SoongNoonien)
• Fix return type of chartypeid (#174) (@SoongNoonien)
• Allow iterating over tables (#175) (@SoongNoonien)
• Remove printval (#176) (@fingolfin)
• Remove chardeg, printcharparam, and more (#179) (@fingolfin)
• Allow iterating over characters (#181) (@SoongNoonien)
• README.md: add badges (#182) (@fingolfin)
• CI: disable tests against Julia nightly (#183) (@fingolfin)
• Remove references to Generic.Poly and AbsSimpleNumFieldElem (#184) (@fingolfin)
• Reorganize manual (#185) (@fingolfin)
• Fixed renaming issue (#190) (@SoongNoonien)
• Improve manual (#191) (@fingolfin)
• Fix lincomb (#192) (@SoongNoonien)
• Move some more character methods to GenericCharacter.jl (#193) (@SoongNoonien)
• Rename some functions (#194) (@SoongNoonien)
• Increase code coverage (#195) (@SoongNoonien)
• Add group order test (#196) (@SoongNoonien)
• Get rid of print* functions (#197) (@SoongNoonien)
• Rename eesubs to evaluate (#198) (@SoongNoonien)
• Move info method to GenericCharacter.jl (#199) (@SoongNoonien)
• Avoid some direct member access (#200) (@SoongNoonien)
• Document what a Kempner number is (#201) (@SoongNoonien)
• Use gen(R,1) instead of gens(R)[1] to avoid allocs (#202) (@fingolfin)
• Even more renamings (#204) (@SoongNoonien)
• Stop exporting nesum (#205) (@SoongNoonien)

Closed issues:

• Add improved normal form and simplification algorithms (#15)
• Document setcongruence (#26)
• Messy function names (#41)
• Properly detect redundant parameter exceptions (#54)
• Issues with changed return value of scalar (#88)
• Add tests against the OSCAR book (#89)
• Don't assume parameter names (#94)
• Add omega alternative to omega! which takes two generic character (types( as arguments (#103)
• Rename scalar to scalar_product to match OSCAR character tables (#105)
• Rename irrchartypes, etc. to be more user friendly (possibly matching similar function in OSCAR for regular tables, if there are any) (#110)
• Replace speccharparam! by a function which takes a character as argument, returns a new one (#111)
• Add docstrings to all our type declarations (#129)
• Explain what a Kempner number is (#130)
• Exceptions list changed? (#158)
• Deal with irrchartypes and chartypes (#159)
• Change chartypeid to return nothing instead of 0 (#160)
• Remove (or first deprecate) status function (#161)
• Rename src/ModifyTable.jl to src/GenericCharacter.jl or src/CharacterType.jl (#162)
• Replace printinfotab (#164)
• Alternative to printcharparam (#166)
• Rename or split params (#180)
• Mention new sugary bits in the docs (#186)
• Unexpected error in nrchars (#188)
• Error invoking lincomb (#189)