Patch Notes

Magma V2.11-16 Patch Notes

Patch release for Magma V2.11-16. Updated areas: Finite Fields, Groups, Polynomial Rings.

28 June 2005 3 areas

Finite Fields ¶

A bug in homomorphisms of finite fields has been fixed (reported by M. Grassl).

Groups ¶

Bugs in construction of generators by the ChevalleyGroup function for families 2G2 and 2F4 for large fields (size $\gt 2^{20}$) have been fixed. Bugs reported by Henrik Baarnhielm.

Polynomial Rings ¶

A bug in IsZeroDivisor for elements of polynomial quotient rings over integer residue class rings has been fixed.