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1 Introduction
 1.1 General aims
 1.2 Installation and system requirements

1 Introduction

1.1 General aims

The overall aim of QPA is to provide computational tools in basic research in mathematics (algebra). It seeks to furnish users within and outside the area of representation theory of finite dimensional algebras with a computational software package that will help in exploring a problem and testing conjectures. As with all software development, new ideas and question will arise. The ability to study and compute examples will help in proving or disproving well-established questions/conjectures. Furthermore, it will enable us to consider new examples which were not accessible by hand or other means before. In this way, we hope that QPA will aid in the development, not only of the area of representation theory of finite dimensional algebras, but also of a broad variety of other areas of mathematics, where such structures occur. In addition we aspire to create a research environment for international cooperation on computational representation theory of finite dimensional algebras.

1.2 Installation and system requirements

QPA does not use external binaries and, therefore, works without restrictions on the type of the operating system. This version of the package is designed for GAP >= 4.5 and no compatibility with previous releases of GAP 4 is guaranteed. However, QPA depend on the Groebner basis GAP-package GBNP.

To use the QPA online help it is necessary to install the GAP 4 package GAPDoc by Frank Lübeck and Max Neunhöffer, which is available from the GAP site or from http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Frank.Luebeck/GAPDoc/.

QPA is distributed in standard format (tar.gz) and can be obtained from http://www.math.ntnu.no/~oyvinso/QPA/. To install the package, unpack its archive in the pkg subdirectory of your GAP installation. In a similar way install the GAP-package GBNP which is available from the GAP site.

For more detailed installation information and an alternative way for downloading QPA see http://www.math.ntnu.no/~oyvinso/QPA/.

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