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<div><h1>SymmetricPolynomials -- the algebra of symmetric polynomials</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div><p>This package uses an explicit description of the Groebner basis of the ideal of obvious relations in this algebra based on:</p>
<p>Grayson, Stillmann - Computations in the intersection theory of flag varieties, preprint, 2009</p>
<p>Sturmfels - Algorithms in Invariant Theory, Springer Verlag, Vienna, 1993</p>
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<div class="single"><h2>Author</h2>
<ul><li><div class="single"><a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~asecele2/">Alexandra Seceleanu</a></div>
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<div class="single"><h2>Version</h2>
This documentation describes version <b>1.0</b> of SymmetricPolynomials.</div>
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The source code from which this documentation is derived is in the file <a href="../../../../Macaulay2/SymmetricPolynomials.m2">SymmetricPolynomials.m2</a>.</div>
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<ul><li><div class="single">Functions<ul><li><span><a href="_build__Symmetric__G__B.html" title="Groebner basis of elementary symmetric polynomials algebra">buildSymmetricGB</a> -- Groebner basis of elementary symmetric polynomials algebra</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_elementary__Symmetric.html" title="expression in terms of elementary symmetric polynomials">elementarySymmetric</a> -- expression in terms of elementary symmetric polynomials</span></li>
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