Introduction

The &HAPprime; package is a &GAP; package which supplements the &HAP; package (http://hamilton.nuigalway.ie/Hap/www/), providing new and improved functions for doing homological algebra over small prime-power groups. A detailed overview of the &HAPprime; package, with examples and documentation of the high-level functions, is provided in the accompanying &HAPprime; user guide.

This document, the datatypes reference manual, supplements the &HAPprime; user guide. It describes the new &GAP; datatypes defined by the &HAPprime; package, and all of the associated functions for working with each of these datatypes. The datatypes are HAPResolution (Chapter ) this datatype, defined in the &HAP; package, represents a free &FG;-resolution of a &FG;-module. &HAPprime; extends the definition of this datatype to save memory, and provides additional functions to operate on resolutions. FpGModuleGF (Chapter ) a free &FG;-module compactly represented in terms of generating elements, with operations that do as much manipulation as possible within this form, thus minimizing memory use. FpGModuleHomomorphismGF (Chapter ) a free linear homomorphism between two &FG;-modules, each represented as a FpGModuleGF. this also uses the compact generator form to save memory in its operations. In addition, Chapter provides documentation for some general functions defined in &HAPprime; which extend some of the basic &GAP; functionality in areas such as matrices and polynomials.

Each chapter of this reference manual begins with an overview of the datatype, and then implementation details of any interesting functions. The function reference of related functions then follows, subdivided into sections of related functions. Examples demonstrating the use of each function are given at the end of each section.

Earlier versions of this datatypes reference manual also documented the datatypes GradedAlgebraPresentation, HAPRingHomomorphism and HAPDerivation. The definitions of these datatypes and their related functions are now part of &HAP; and will be documented as part of that package.

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