Forms  --- Sesquilinear and Quadratic

                    John Bamberg
        (The University of Western Australia)
                    Jan De Beule
            (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

This package provides:

• A way to create and use sesquilinear and quadratic forms on finite vector spaces.

• An operation which finds an isometry between two forms of the same type

• An operation which returns the forms left invariant by a matrix group.

For further information see: https://gap-packages.github.io/forms

INSTALLATION AND DEPENDENCIES

Just unpack one of the archives in the "pkg" subdirectory of your GAP installation. The archive is available in several formats:

forms-x.y.tar.gz
forms-x.y-win.zip forms-x.y.tar.bz2

Unpacking generates a subdirectory "forms". Then you can load the package by typing in the GAP command line "LoadPackage("forms");". All documentation and examples are included.

INSTALLATION outside the GAP main directory: When you don't have access to the directory of your main GAP installation you can also install the package(s) by unpacking inside a directory "MYGAPDIR/pkg", where "MYGAPDIR" is any path in your home directory that you have access to.

To use packages installed in "MYGAPDIR/pkg", do not forget to start gap with the extra option '-l ";MYGAPDIR"'.

For questions or comments on the "Forms" package, write to John Bamberg or Jan De Beule at

bamberg@maths.uwa.edu.au or jan@debeule.eu

Have a lot of fun!

The authors,

John Bamberg and Jan De Beule