Computational Algebra Group

Publications

Research publications by members of the Computational Algebra Group at the University of Sydney, spanning 2026 to 1988.

125 publications

2026

Computing Class Groups and Unit Groups in Magma

Elsenhans A-S, Voight J

Proceedings of the 2026 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation

The constructive inverse Galois problem via Hilbert modular forms: realizing the transitive group 17T7

van Bommel R, Costa E, Elkies ND, Keller T, Schiavone S, Voight J

arXiv

Explicit modularity of K3 surfaces with complex multiplication of large degree

Costa E, Elsenhans A-S, Jahnel J, Voight J

LuCaNT: Databases, Algorithms, and Computational Number Theory, Contemporary Mathematics

A framework for Tate modules of abelian varieties under isogeny

Frei S, Honigs K, Voight J

Essential Number Theory

Hypergeometric motives from Euler integral representations

Kelly TL, Voight J

Journal of the London Mathematical Society

Constructing ordinary representations of finite groups via extension

Steel A

Journal of Algebra

QRT map on a bielliptic surface

Joshi N, Nijhoff FW, Steel A

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

Influence of the geometry on the mechanical performance of tubular interlockings: A study of the Sine Block

Macek D, Weiss M, Akpanya R, Brepols T, Holthusen H, Niemeyer AC

JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

Construction of Toroidal Polyhedra corresponding to perfect Chains of isosceles Tetrahedra

Akpanya R, Krishna Kirekod V, Niemeyer AC, Robertz D

Journal of Geometry

Topologically Interlocking Blocks Inside the Tetroctahedrille

Akpanya R, Goertzen T, Niemeyer AC

Nexus Network Journal

A census of Cayley graphs

Evans RJ, Potočnik P

Journal of Symbolic Computation

2025

On abelian varieties whose torsion is not self-dual

Frei S, Honigs K, Voight J

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society Series B

Computing class groups and unit groups in Magma

Elsenhans A-S, Voight J

arXiv

Explicit modularity of K3 surfaces with complex multiplication of large degree

Costa E, Elsenhans A-S, Jahnel J, Voight J

arXiv

Computing Hilbert modular forms as orthogonal modular forms

Hein J, Tornaria G, Voight J

arXiv

On Galois inertial types of elliptic curves over Q_{p}

Dembélé L, Freitas N, Voight J

Mathematics of Computation, American Mathematical Society (AMS)

Simplicial surfaces with given automorphism group

Akpanya R, Goertzen T

Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics

Tightness of the Weight‐Distribution Bound for Strongly Regular Polar Graphs

Evans RJ, Goryainov S, Shalaginov L

Journal of Combinatorial Designs

Equitable 2-partitions of the Johnson graphs J(n,3)

Evans RJ, Gavrilyuk AL, Goryainov S, Vorob'ev K

Discrete Mathematics

Computing quadratic subfields of number fields

Elsenhans, Andreas-Stephan; Klüners, Jürgen

J. Comput. Algebra

2024

GROUPS WITH FEW NONPOWER SUBGROUPS

ZHENG J, ZHOU W, TAYLOR DE

Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society

Ideal classes of orders in quaternion algebras

Marseglia S, Smit H, Voight J

Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra228(7):107649Elsevier

A database of basic numerical invariants of Hilbert modular surfaces

Assaf E, Babei A, Breen B, Costa E, Duque-Rosero J, Horawa A, Kieffer J, Kulkarni A, Molnar G, Schiavone S, Voight J

LuCaNT: LMFDB, Computation, and Number Theory, Contemporary Mathematics

A database of paramodular forms from quinary orthogonal modular forms

Assaf E, Ladd W, Rama G, Tornaría G, Voight J

LuCaNT: LMFDB, Computation, and Number Theory, Contemporary Mathematics

Hurwitz's lectures on the number theory of quaternions

Voight J

European Mathematical Society Magazine

Rational torsion points on abelian surfaces with quaternionic multiplication

Laga J, Schembri C, Shnidman A, Voight J

Forum of Mathematics Sigma

Bianchi period polynomials: Hecke action and congruences

Combes L

Research in Number Theory

Minimization of hypersurfaces

Elsenhans, Andreas-Stephan; Stoll, Michael

Math. Comp.

Real and complex multiplication on K3 surfaces via period integration

Elsenhans, Andreas-Stephan; Jahnel, Jörg

Exp. Math.

On the component group of the algebraic monodromy group of a K3 surface

Elsenhans, Andreas-Stephan; Jahnel, Jörg

J. Algebra

Computing Galois groups

Elsenhans, Andreas-Stephan

Int. J. Group Theory

2023

Explicit families of K3 surfaces having real multiplication

Elsenhans, Andreas-Stephan; Jahnel, Jörg

Michigan Math. J.

Computing splitting fields using Galois theory and other Galois constructions

C Fieker and N Sutherland

Journal of Symbolic Computation

2022

Frobenius trace distributions for K3 surfaces

Elsenhans, Andreas-Stephan; Jahnel, Jörg

J. Ramanujan Math. Soc.

2-adic point counting on K3 surfaces

Elsenhans, Andreas-Stephan; Jahnel, Jörg

Res. Number Theory

2021

Most permutations power to a cycle of small prime length

Glasby SP, Praeger CE, Unger WR

Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society

Galois groups over rational function fields and Explicit Hilbert Irreducibility

David Krumm and Nicole Sutherland

Journal of Symbolic Computation

2020

The Hasse norm principle in global function fields

Manzateanu, A. and Newton, R. and Ozman, E. and Sutherland, N. and Uysal, R. G.

Women in Numbers Europe III: Research Directions in Number Theory. Papers from the Workshop (WIN-E3) held at La Hublais, Cesson-Sévigné (France)

Constructions using Galois Theory

Claus Fieker and Nicole Sutherland

ArXiv

Construction of the irreducible modular representations of a finite group

John J. Cannon and Allan K. Steel and William R. Unger

Journal of Algebra

Computing invariants of cubic surfaces

Elsenhans, Andreas-Stephan and Jahnel, Jörg

Matematiche (Catania)

2019

Almost all permutations power to a cycle of prime length

Unger WR

arXiv

Existence results for primitive elements in cubic and quartic extensions of a finite field

Geoff Bailey and Stephen Cohen and Nicole Sutherland and Timothy Trudgian

Math. Comp.

An algorithm for computing Schur indices of characters

W.R. Unger

Journal of Symbolic Computation

Primitive values of quadratic polynomials in a finite field

Andrew Booker and Stephen Cohen and Nicole Sutherland, and Timothy Trudgian

Mathematics of Computation

Computing subfields of number fields and applications to Galois group computations

Andreas-Stephan Elsenhans and Juergen Klueners

Journal of Symbolic Computation

Fast detection of giant permutation groups

W.R. Unger

Computing the socle of a large permutation group

W.R. Unger

Plane quartics with a Galois-invariant Steiner hexad

Elsenhans, Andreas-Stephan and Jahnel, Jörg

Int. J. Number Theory

The use of permutation representations in structural computations in large finite matrix groups

John J. Cannon and Derek F. Holt and William R. Unger

Journal of Symbolic Computation

On plane quartics with a Galois invariant Cayley octad

Elsenhans, Andreas-Stephan and Jahnel, Jörg

Eur. J. Math.

2018

Normalisers of parabolic subgroups in finite unitary reflection groups

Muraleedaran K, Taylor DE

Journal of Algebra

Jacobi sums and Grössencharacters

M. Watkins

Publications math'ematiques de Besançon

2017

Losing Chess: 1. E3 Wins for White

Mark Watkins

ICGA Journal

2016

Point counting on K3 surfaces and an application concerning real and complex multiplication

Elsenhans, Andreas-Stephan and Jahnel, Jörg

LMS J. Comput. Math., suppl. A

An application of the p-adic analytic class number formula

Fieker, C. and Zhang, Y.

LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics

Groups equal to a product of three conjugate subgroups

Cannon, J. J. and Garonzi, M. and Levy, D. and Maroti, A. and Simion I.I.

Israel Journal of Mathematics

Algorithms for Galois Extensions of Global Function Fields

Sutherland, Nicole

Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society

2015

Direct Solution of the (11,9,8)-MinRank problem by the Block Wiedemann Algorithm in Magma with a Tesla GPU

Allan Steel

Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Parallel Symbolic Computation

Appendix to Denominators of algebraic numbers in a number field by M. Ayad, A. Bayad and O. Kihel

Claus Fieker

J. Num. Thy

Moduli spaces and the inverse Galois problem for cubic surfaces

A.-S. Elsenhans and J. Jahnel

Transactions of the AMS

Two torsion in the Brauer group of a hyperelliptic curve

Creutz, B. and Viray, B.

Manuscripta Math.

On the characteristic polynomial of the Frobenius on 'etale cohomology

A.-S. Elsenhans and J. Jahnel

Duke Mathematical Journal

2014

Subexponential class group and unit group computation in large degree number fields.

Jean-Franc

LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics [electronic only ]

Computing in quotients of rings of integers.

Claus Fieker

LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics [electronic only ]

Computation of Galois groups of rational polynomials.

Claus Fieker

LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics [electronic only ]

Second p-descents on elliptic curves

Brendan Creutz

Mathematics of Computation

Solved openings in Losing Chess

M. Watkins

ICGA Journal

2013

Locally trivial torsors that are not Weil-Châtelet divisible

Brendan Creutz

Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society

Some Comments about Indefinite LLL

Mark Watkins

Diophantine Methods, Lattics, and Arithmetic Theory of Quadratic Forms, Proceedings of a BIRS Workshop

$p$-adic verification of class number computations

Yinan Zhang

Explicit descent in the Picard group of a cyclic cover of the projective line

Brendan Creutz

ANTS X: Proceedings of the Tenth Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium

Hypergeometric Motives

B. Allombert and F. Beukers and H. Cohen and A. Mellit and P. Molin and D. Roberts and F. Rodriguez Villegas and M. Vlasenko and M. Watkins

Explicit Methods in Number Theory

2012

A Grunwald-Wang type theorem for abelian varieties

Brendan Creutz

Acta Arith.

An extension of Kedlaya's algorithm for hyperelliptic curves

Michael Harrison

J. Symbolic Computation

Algorithms for Del Pezzo Surfaces of Degree 5 (Construction, Parametrization)

Jon Gonzalez-Sanchez and Michael Harrison and Irene Polo-Blanco and Josef Schicho

J. Symbolic Computation

Minkowski polynomials and mutations

Mohammad Akhtar and Tom Coates and Sergey Galkin and Alexander M. Kasprzyk

SIGMA Symmetry Integrability Geom. Methods Appl.

Some remarks on Heegner point computations

M. Watkins

Explicit Methods in Number Theory

Another 80-dimensional extremal lattice

Mark Watkins

Journal de th'eorie des nombres de Bordeaux

2011

Computing systems of Hecke eigenvalues associated to Hilbert modular forms

Greenberg, Matthew and Voight, John

Math. Comp.

Potential Sha for abelian varieties

Creutz, Brendan

Journal of Number Theory

The great trinomial hunt

Brent, Richard P. and Zimmermann, Paul

Notices of the American Mathematical Society

On the Equivalence of Quadratic APN Functions

Bracken, Carl and Byrne, Eimear and McGuire, Gary and Nebe, Gabriele

Designs, Codes and Cryptography

Fundamental domains for congruence subgroups of SL2 in positive characteristic

Lisa Carbone and Leigh Cobbs and Scott H. Murray

Journal of Algebra

Unifying some known infinite families of combinatorial 3-designs

Jimbo, Masakazu and Kunihara, Yuna and Laue, Reinhard and Sawa, Masanori

J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A

On the computation of local components of a newform

Loeffler, David and Weinstein, Jared

Mathematics of Computation

Constructive homomorphisms for classical groups

Murray, Scott H. and Roney-Dougal, Colva M.

Journal of Symbolic Computation

Secant varieties to Lagrangian Grassmannians

Boralevi, Ada and Buczy'nski, Jaros

Annali di Mat Pura ed Applicata

An LLL-Reduction algorithm with quasi-linear time complexity

Novocin, Andrew and Stehl'e

Proc. 43rd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing

Rank 7 quadratic twist(s) of the congruent number curve

M. Watkins and A. Granville

Explicit Methods in Number Theory

A new automorphism of X0(108)

Michael Harrison

Some Comments about Indefinite LLL

M. Watkins

Diophantine Methods, Lattics, and Arithmetic Theory of Quadratic Forms

2010

Nondegenerate curves of low genus over small finite fields

Castryck, Wouter and Voight, John

Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography and Coding Theory 2009

An O(M(n) log n) algorithm for the Jacobi symbol

Brent, Richard P. and Zimmermann, Paul

Algorithmic Number Theory (Ninth International Symposium, ANTS-IX)

Modern Computer Arithmetic

Brent, Richard P. and Zimmermann, Paul

Accelerating lattice reduction with FPGAs

Detrey, J'e

Proceedings of the First international conference on Progress in cryptology: cryptology and information security in Latin America

On the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer quotients modulo squares

Dokchitser, Tim and Dokchitser, Vladimir

Annals of Math.

On Coxeter's families of group presentations

Havas, George and Holt, Derek F.

J. Algebra

Constructing maximal subgroups of orthogonal groups

Holt, Derek F. and Roney-Dougal, Colva M.

LMS J. Comput. Math.

Faster Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Stehl'e

Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2010

2009

Solving the Shortest Lattice Vector Problem in Time 2^2.465n

Xavier Pujol and Damien Stehl'e

Unitary reflection groups

Lehrer, Gustav I. and Taylor, Donald E.

On the extremality of an 80-dimensional lattice

M. Watkins

Explicit Methods in Number Theory

2008

Embeddings of complex line systems and finite reflection groups

Krishnasamy, Muraleedaran and Taylor, D. E.

J. Aust. Math. Soc.

2007

Some long-period random number generators using shifts and xors

Brent, R.P.

ANZIAM Journal

Geometric automorphism groups of graphs

Abelson, David and Hong, Seok-Hee and Taylor, D. E.

Discrete Appl. Math.

2002

A group-theoretic method for drawing graphs symmetrically

Abelson, David and Hong, Seok-Hee and Taylor, Donald E.

Graph drawing

2001

Matrix generators for exceptional groups of Lie type

Howlett, R. B. and Rylands, L. J. and Taylor, D. E.

J. Symbolic Comput.

Two results concerning distance-regular directed graphs

Combe, D. and Taylor, D. E.

Australas. J. Combin.

2000

Constructions for octonion and exceptional Jordan algebras

Rylands, L. J. and Taylor, D. E.

Des. Codes Cryptogr.

1999

1998

Matrix generators for the orthogonal groups

Rylands, L. J. and Taylor, D. E.

J. Symbolic Comput.

1997

On outer automorphism groups of Coxeter groups

Howlett, R. B. and Rowley, P. J. and Taylor, D. E.

Manuscripta Math.

1994

Vertex-primitive half-transitive graphs

Taylor, D. E. and Xu, Ming Yao

J. Austral. Math. Soc. Ser. A

1992

Introductory lectures on Siegel modular forms (Book Review)

W. Bosma

The geometry of the classical groups

Taylor, Donald E.

A decomposition of the descent algebra of a finite Coxeter group

Bergeron, F. and Bergeron, N. and Howlett, R. B. and Taylor, D. E.

J. Algebraic Combin.

1988

Polynomial-time versions of Sylow's theorem

Kantor, W. M. and Taylor, D. E.

J. Algorithms