| PackageDescription | mathematical software for low-dimensional topology
Regina is a software package for 3-manifold and 4-manifold topologists,
with a focus on triangulations, knots and links, normal surfaces, and
angle structures.
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For 3-manifolds, it includes high-level tasks such as 3-sphere recognition,
connected sum decomposition and Hakenness testing, comes with a rich
database of census manifolds, and incorporates the SnapPea kernel for
working with hyperbolic manifolds. For 4-manifolds, it offers a range of
combinatorial and algebraic tools, plus support for normal hypersurfaces.
For knots and links, Regina can perform combinatorial manipulation,
compute knot polynomials, and work with several import/export formats.
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Regina comes with a full graphical user interface, as well as Python bindings
and a low-level C++ programming interface.
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This package includes the graphical user interface and the command-line
Python interface. The users' handbook and the API documentation are in
the separate package regina-normal-doc. |