Factoring Groups Efficiently
- Neeraj Kayal ,
- Timur Nezhmetdinov
International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) |
Published by Springer Verlag
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.