Re: multiplicative group question

From: Kristian Gjøsteen (kristiag+news_at_item.ntnu.no)
Date: 07/04/05 

Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 07:05:45 +0000 (UTC)

David Wagner <daw-usenet@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>Kristian Gjøsteen wrote:
>>Isn't the following a trivial example? Hom(Z_n*,Z_n*) is a ring, [..]

Oops, I meant the subring containing the maps x -> x^a for some
integer a.

>How do you represent elements of Hom(Z_n*,Z_n*) efficiently?

When you perform group operations on the maps, the representation grows.
That's what I was missing. Sorry. 

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Kristian Gjøsteen