Introduction

Groupoids are mathematical categories in which every arrow is invertible. The &gpd; share package provides functions for the computation with groupoids and their morphisms; for graphs of groups and graphs of groupoids. The package is far from complete, and development continues.

It was used by Emma Moore in her thesis to calculate normal forms for Free Products with Amalgamation, and for HNN-extensions, when the initial groups have rewrite systems.

&gpd; is implemented using {\GAP}~4.4. Some of the utility functions in the `XMod` share package for crossed modules are used.

The information parameter InfoGpd takes default value 1 which, for the benefit of new users, causes more messages to be printed out when operations fail. When raised to a higher value, additional information is printed out.

Help is available in the usual way.

gap> LoadPackage( "gpd" ); ------------------------------------------------------------ loading XMod 2.007 for GAP 4.4 - Murat Alp and Chris Wensley ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- loading Gpd 1.01 for GAP 4.4 - Emma Moore and Chris Wensley ----------------------------------------------------------- true gap> ?Groupoid Help: several entries match this topic - type ?2 to get match [2]

[1] Gpd: Groupoid [2] loops (not loaded): groupoid [3] Gpd: Groupoids [4] Gpd: Groupoids: their elements and attributes [5] Gpd: GroupoidByUnion [6] Gpd: GroupoidElement [7] Gpd: GroupoidMorphismByComponents [8] Gpd: GroupoidMorphism [9] Gpd: GroupoidsOfGraphOfGroupoids

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