On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 14:18, richard noel fell wrote:
> In the share directory is a package written many years ago, gamalg, to
> do gamma matrix algebra.
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> Did this package work at some time? I wrote a gamma algebra package to
> use with commercial Macsyma for a specific problem. It was naive, but it
> worked in a very large calculation (Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 18 (1997)). It
> would be nice if maxima had a working gamma algebra package and it seems
> reasonable to look at the prior work first as it seems to have many more
> features ( The source code is in share2. ) I am willing to do this, but
> before doing so find out if anyone is aware of bugs in this program as
> it stands now. A search of groups in google produced no information.
I don't know of anyone working on this. As you say, the gamalg package
is really old. (Did you notice the author? Pretty amusing.) Any
contribution you have in this area would be a welcome addition to
maxima.
--Jim