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Fix bug in MaximalSubgroupClassReps that could lead to a wrong result #3662

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The code used to compute a special pcgs in a pc group image and transfer
some cached information -- that does not seem to work properly, and also not
be worth the effort of doing. Replace by direct computation.

This fixes a bug reported by Andries Brouwer (example is in test file)

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A bug in MaximalSubgroupClassReps that could lead to a wrong result was fixed.

The code used to compute a special pcgs in a pc group image and transfer
some cached information -- that does not seem to work properly, and also not
be worth the effort of doing. Replace by direct computation.
@hulpke hulpke added kind: bug: wrong result Issues describing bugs that result in mathematically or otherwise wrong results, and PRs fixing them release notes: to be added PRs introducing changes that should be (but have not yet been) mentioned in the release notes backport-to-4.11 labels Sep 17, 2019
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Coverage decreased (-0.005%) to 84.428% when pulling 65902fd on hulpke:fixes into 470098f on gap-system:master.

@hulpke hulpke merged commit 38fbd9f into gap-system:master Sep 18, 2019
fingolfin pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 20, 2019
The code used to compute a special pcgs in a pc group image and transfer
some cached information -- that does not seem to work properly, and also not
be worth the effort of doing. Replace by direct computation.
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Backported to stable-4.11 in commit a0b9798

@fingolfin fingolfin changed the title FIX: Bug in MaximalSubgroupClassReps Fix a bug in MaximalSubgroupClassReps that could lead to a wrong result Nov 28, 2019
@fingolfin fingolfin changed the title Fix a bug in MaximalSubgroupClassReps that could lead to a wrong result Fix bug in MaximalSubgroupClassReps that could lead to a wrong result Dec 5, 2019
@fingolfin fingolfin added release notes: added PRs introducing changes that have since been mentioned in the release notes and removed release notes: to be added PRs introducing changes that should be (but have not yet been) mentioned in the release notes labels Dec 5, 2019
@olexandr-konovalov olexandr-konovalov added this to the GAP 4.11.0 milestone Feb 15, 2020
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