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See `example.py`. The function `generate_automaton_coxeter_matrix` takes as argument the [Coxeter matrix] of the desired group and a boolean determining which of the two automata is generated. It returns the automaton as an adjacency list. In addition, the function `enumerate_group` can compute all group elements up to a given word length, including the edges of the Cayley graph. To do this, it uses both automata.
For example, the following code would give us the first of the two automata above:
#!/usr/bin/python
import coxeter_automaton
coxeter_matrix = [[1, 3, 3],
[3, 1, 3],
[3, 3, 1]]
graph = coxeter_automaton.generate_automaton_coxeter_matrix(coxeter_matrix, lex_reduced = False)
print(graph)
For a more human-readable output, `dot_graph.py` generates dot files, which can be used as input to [Graphviz] to render the graph as a PDF file. The resulting images are not quite as nice as the manually drawn ones above, but usually good enough to be useful.
[Brink-Howlett]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01445101