<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>exteriorPower(ZZ,Module) -- exterior power of a module</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_extracting_spelements.html">next</a> | <a href="_exterior__Power_lp__Z__Z_cm__Matrix_rp.html">previous</a> | <a href="_extracting_spelements.html">forward</a> | <a href="_exterior__Power_lp__Z__Z_cm__Matrix_rp.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>exteriorPower(ZZ,Module) -- exterior power of a module</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>exteriorPower(i,M)</tt><br/><tt>exteriorPower_i M</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><span>Function: <a href="_exterior__Power.html" title="exterior power">exteriorPower</a></span></li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>i</tt>, <span>an <a href="___Z__Z.html">integer</a></span></span></li> <li><span><tt>M</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Module.html">module</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="___Module.html">module</a></span>, the <tt>i</tt>-th exterior power of <tt>M</tt>.</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single"><a href="_using_spfunctions_spwith_spoptional_spinputs.html">Optional inputs</a>:<ul><li><span><a href="_exterior__Power_lp..._cm_sp__Strategy_sp_eq_gt_sp..._rp.html">Strategy => ...</a>, -- choose between Bareiss and Cofactor algorithms</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : M = ZZ^5 5 o1 = ZZ o1 : ZZ-module, free</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : exteriorPower(3,M) 10 o2 = ZZ o2 : ZZ-module, free</pre> </td></tr> </table> When <tt>i</tt> is <tt>1</tt>, then the result is equal to <tt>M</tt>. When <tt>M</tt> is not a free module, then the generators used for the result will be wedges of the generators of <tt>M</tt>. In other words, the modules <tt>cover exteriorPower(i,M)</tt> and <tt>exteriorPower(i,cover M)</tt> will be equal.</div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>See also</h2> <ul><li><span><a href="_exterior__Power_lp__Z__Z_cm__Matrix_rp.html" title="exterior power of a matrix">exteriorPower(ZZ,Matrix)</a> -- exterior power of a matrix</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>