(maxima.info)Introduction to Symmetries

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30.1 Introduction to Symmetries
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'sym' is a package for working with symmetric groups of polynomials.

   It was written for Macsyma-Symbolics by Annick Valibouze
(<http://www-calfor.lip6.fr/~avb/>).  The algorithms are described in
the following papers:

  1. Fonctions syme'triques et changements de bases.  Annick Valibouze.
     EUROCAL'87 (Leipzig, 1987), 323-332, Lecture Notes in Comput.  Sci
     378.  Springer, Berlin, 1989.
     <http://www.stix.polytechnique.fr/publications/1984-1994.html>

  2. Re'solvantes et fonctions syme'triques.  Annick Valibouze.
     Proceedings of the ACM-SIGSAM 1989 International Symposium on
     Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, ISSAC'89 (Portland, Oregon).
     ACM Press, 390-399, 1989.
     <http://www-calfor.lip6.fr/~avb/DonneesTelechargeables/MesArticles/issac89ACMValibouze.pdf>

  3. Symbolic computation with symmetric polynomials, an extension to
     Macsyma.  Annick Valibouze.  Computers and Mathematics (MIT, USA,
     June 13-17, 1989), Springer-Verlag, New York Berlin, 308-320, 1989.
     <http://www.stix.polytechnique.fr/publications/1984-1994.html>

  4. The'orie de Galois Constructive.  Annick Valibouze.  Me'moire
     d'habilitation a` diriger les recherches (HDR), Universite' P. et
     M. Curie (Paris VI), 1994.