Factoring Groups Efficiently

International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) |

Published by Springer Verlag

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We give a polynomial time algorithm that computes a decomposition of a finite group G given in the form of its multiplication table. That is, given G, the algorithm outputs two subgroups A and B of G such that G is the direct product of A and B, if such a decomposition exists.