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NCAlgebra :: isCentral

isCentral -- Determines if an element is central

Synopsis

Description

This method checks to see if a given NCRing element is central.

i1 : B = threeDimSklyanin(QQ,{1,1,-1},{x,y,z})
--Calling Bergman for NCGB calculation.
--running: bergman -i /var/folders/46/9b86vqxj4hjcngvy7kd7sb140000gn/T/M2-12669-0/0.init -on-error exit --silent > /var/folders/46/9b86vqxj4hjcngvy7kd7sb140000gn/T/M2-12669-0/3.ter ... Complete!

o1 = B

o1 : NCQuotientRing
i2 : g = -y^3-x*y*z+y*x*z+x^3

       3          3
o2 = -y +yxz-xyz+x

o2 : B
i3 : h = x^2 + y^2 + z^2

      2        2
o3 = y +yx+xy+x

o3 : B
i4 : isCentral h

o4 = true
i5 : isCentral g

o5 = true

See also

Ways to use isCentral :