Hands On

[stoutfellow]

Even if I hadn't been called to teaching duty, I'd have to go onto campus this week. I've been investigating the case of G-gons where G is the simplest example that isn't one of the Zn's (which cases I have fair understanding of) or the V-type groups (likewise). I'm doing what I can with head and hands, and something unexpected has cropped up. I need to call in the big-guns software - Mathematica and, to a lesser extent, Sketchpad - to see what this stuff looks like, symbolically and visually.

(I can access my office computer from home, but there are some incompatibilities between my monitor setups in the two locales which cause a few problems. Basically, I can only get to one of the office monitors from home. I just discovered a kludgy workaround, but it'll be better to have full access.)