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SymmetricPolynomials -- the algebra of symmetric polynomials

Description

This package uses an explicit description of the Groebner basis of the ideal of obvious relations in this algebra based on:

Grayson, Stillmann - Computations in the intersection theory of flag varieties, preprint, 2009

Sturmfels - Algorithms in Invariant Theory, Springer Verlag, Vienna, 1993

Author

Version

This documentation describes version 1.0 of SymmetricPolynomials.

Source code

The source code from which this documentation is derived is in the file SymmetricPolynomials.m2.

Exports

For the programmer

The object SymmetricPolynomials is a package.