Questions on the functionality operating on polynomials
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Factoring polynomials to factors involving complex coefficients
I've run into some problems using Factor on polynomials with complex coefficient factors. Reading the documentation it looks like it only factors over the ...
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List of Tribonacci Polynomials with Mathematica? [duplicate]
I want to list top ten of Tribonacci polynomials. I have following algorithm, but it doesnt work.
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The plot of roots of polynomials
I have polynomial equation like Tribonacci Polynomials for example: $T_3(x)=x^4+x$.
After finding the roots of this polynomial, I want to show these roots in the complex plane.
I have tried lots of ...
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Table of Polynomials [closed]
I made a function
makePolynomial
that creates a random Polynomial of a certain degree, e.g.
2+T+3T^2+8T^3-5T^4...
now I ...
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What are Root objects with multiple polynomials?
In Mathematica 9 a new flavor of Root object with multiple polynomials was introduced. For example,
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How to define a polynomial/function from an array of coefficients?
I have the coefficients of my desired polynomial in an array CoefArr (I'm new to mathematica, so I think of everything as arrays, it is actually a list I believe) starting with the constant at index ...
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Defining a function that completes the square given a quadratic polynomial expression
How can I write a function that would complete the square in a quadratic polynomial expression such that, for example,
CompleteTheSquare[5 x^2 + 27 x - 5, x]
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Solving cubic equation for real roots
I'm looking to solve the following cubic equation for x:
$\beta\, x^3 - \gamma \,x = c$. I have plugged in some sample values ($\beta = 2$, $\gamma = 5$ and $c = 2$). When I try to solve this ...
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How do I get a two-term polynomial with a leading negative sign to display in the correct (i.e. textbook) order?
The first three expressions evaluate as expected and the polynomial is displayed in what I would call "textbook" form. The last expression, however, switches the order of terms. Mathematica employs ...
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Implementation of Decompose
I'm curious as to how Decompose works so I decided to use Trace with the option ...
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Evaluating Polynomials at Grid Points
I am continuing my quest on B-splines. The code below builds a 5x5 matrix out of B-splines, using the BSplineBasis[] routine.
I now want to evaluate the polynomials that are stored in each matrix ...
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Computing Ehrhart's polynomial for a convex polytope
Is there a Mathematica implementation for computing the Ehrhart polynomial of a convex polytope which is specified either by its vertices or by a set of inequalities?
I am interested in knowing this ...
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Computing the genus of an algebraic curve
How-to compute the genus of an algebraic curve in Mathematica ?
In my case the algebraic curve is explicitly defined by a polynomial.
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How to evaluate all the essentially distinct polynomials in 4 variables over $F_2$ on points of $F_2 ^ 4$
I am a beginner with Mathematica. For my research purpose I would like to get a list of all the polynomials in $F_2[x,y,z,w]$ and for each polynomial I would like to know the result that it gives then ...
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How do I reassign canonical ordering of symbols?
I have a big polynomial that evaluates to:
$$A^2 e^2 \phi ^- \phi ^++A e \phi ^- \phi ^+ c_{2 w}
g_Z+\frac{1}{2} A e g h W^- \phi ^+ +\ll13\gg,$$
which is supposed to represent some terms in the ...
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Apart may use Padé method: what's that?
How does Apart work? The page tutorial/SomeNotesOnInternalImplementation#7441 says, "Apart ...
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Series expansion in terms of Hermite polynomials
I am trying to expand a polynomial in terms of orthogonal polynomials (in my case, Hermite). Maple has a nice built-in function for this, ChangeBasis.
Is there a ...
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Calculating Taylor polynomial of an implicit function given by an equation
I'd like to write a procedure that will take
an equation: F(x,y,z) = 0
chosen variable: x
a point: ...
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How to collect terms with positive powers in polynomial
I am trying to collect all terms with non-negative powers of $x$ in polynomials like
$\frac{1}{x^2}\left(a x^2+x^{\pi }+x+z\right)^2$
First expand the polynomial
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Rearranging a Polynomial
In Mathematica 8.04 on Windows, I want to display a formula in standard textbook format. The formula is the variance of an $N$-security portfolio. For two securities it is:
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Is there any way to force Mathematica to collect a symbol in a polynomial?
Let's say that I have a polynomial like this:
a + b + c
Is there any way that I can get Mathematica to transform it to:
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Negative power instead of fraction
Solve returns a solution in the form {{x->y/a^2 + y^2/a^7}}.
Since I want to process the input (with another program) in terms of Laurent polynomials, I would ...
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1answer
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Factorize and find the null space of a polynomial in several variables [duplicate]
I've been asked to factor the following polynomial:
poly = 6 x^3 + x^2 y - 11 xy^2 - 6 y^3 - 5 x^2 z + 11 xyz + 11 y^2 z - 2 xz^2 - 6 yz^2 + z^3
And to solve for z so that poly = 0
Can anyone help ...
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How do I find the degree of a multivariable polynomial automatically?
I have a very simple question which appears not to have already been answered on this forum. Is there built-in functionality that returns the degree of a multivariable polynomial? For example if the ...
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Convert coefficients of polynomials into a matrix
I have several sets of 5 polynomials of the form:
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Integrating polynomial functions over polytopes with an add-on package
There is a Mathematica package to evaluate integrals over polytopes:
http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Books/3652/
In the documentation (Functions.nb file) I ...
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FindFit and Integration errors
First off, appologies for what may sound like a newbie question, as I am very new to using Mathematica.
I am trying to find a way to get Mathematica to give me an expression that would describe the ...
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How to transform an expression using algebraical instead of pattern rules [duplicate]
I would like to transform rules algebraically. A very simple example would be: -
k^2 - 2 k x + x^2 /. {2*k -> 1}
This transforms to: -
$$k^2-2 k x+x^2$$
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How can I prevent a polynomial from being simplified?
I'm having a problem with polynomials. Let's say I have a polynomial "2x^2 - 5x + 6 - 3x^2" .. How can I check that this expression is not simplified ? Additionally, I would like to locate the ...
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Expanding a polynomial with fractional powers
Given an expression like
a + b*y + c*y^2 + d*Sqrt[f + g*y + h*y^2]
How can I programatically, expand this to a quartic without any fractional powers?
Right ...
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1answer
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How can I get an exponent vector from monomials?
I am trying to get an exponent vector from a list of monomials. I am using the CoefficientRules command; however, it is returning a list that includes the ...
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How can I make the output from Solve look nice?
I have a problem with presenting solutions. Roots of 4th order polynomials are big expressions. Is there a way to present the roots, s2 and s3, in normal form with some substitutions? Maybe a way to ...
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How to get exact roots of this polynomial?
The equation $$ 64x^7 -112x^5 -8x^4 +56x^3 +8x^2 -7x - 1 = 0 $$
has seven solutions $x = 1$, $x = -\dfrac{1}{2}$ and $x = \cos \dfrac{2n\pi}{11}$, where $n$ runs from $1$ to $5$. With ...
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Handling “Solve was unable to solve the system with inexact coefficient” errors [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get rid of warnings when using Solve on an equation with inexact coefficients?
I've been trying to calculate the following in Mathematica:
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First positive root
Simple question but problem with NSolve.
I need help how to extract first positive root? For example
eq=-70.5 + 450.33 x^2 - 25 x^4;
NSolve[eq== 0, x]
If I ...
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How to keep Collect[] result in order?
For example,
Collect[(1 + x + Cos[s] x^2)^3, x]
gives the result
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Know the degree of the equation with the radicals expanded
I have an equation with radicals. I would like to know what would be the degree of the polynomials if I'd move the terms and square the equation a number of times sufficient to remove all the ...
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How to do the polynomial stuff over finite fields extensions fast?
This question is raised from the problem of package FiniteFields being very slow (please, see the corresponding question): I have had an evidence that Mathematica ...
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Finding real roots of negative numbers (for example, $\sqrt[3]{-8}$)
Say I want to quickly calculate $\sqrt[3]{-8}$, to which the most obvious solution is $-2$.
When I input $\sqrt[3]{-8}$ or Power[-8, 3^-1], Mathematica gives the ...
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Generating lots of Examples in Polynomials Rings
I'm studying polynomial rings and i would like to know some tricks for generating lots of examples.
For instance, suppose i'm interested in polynomials over the integers mod (2,x^3 + 1). To get a ...
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Factorize Parametric Polynomials
Is there a possibility to factorize a parametric polynomial expression - meaning that the coefficients are defined as parameters, and not as specific numbers?
My example - a polynomial in ...
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How to deduce a generator formula for a polynomial sequence?
Consider a polynomial sequence $\{p_n\}$ generated by some (simple) rule:
$$
\begin{array}{l}
p_1(x)=x \\
p_2(x)=2 x-x^2 \\
p_3(x)= x^3-3 x^2+3 x \\
p_4(x)=-x^4+4 x^3-6 x^2+4 x \\
p_5(x)= x^5-5 ...
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Get polynomial interpolation formula
I'm attempting to get a polynomial interpolation formula out of Mathematica but I am absolutely lost. I stared out using ...
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Small Issue with Chebyshev Derivative Appoximation
I am trying to get approximate the derivative of a function from its Chebyshev expansion.
I start out with the following random function
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Polynomial Approximation from Chebyshev coefficients
I would like to expand a function $f(r)$ in the domain $[0,R]$, around the points $r =0$, and $r = R$ in the following manner
$f(r = 0) = \Sigma_{i=0,i = even}^{imax} f_i (r/R)^i$
and
$f(r = R) = ...
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How can I compute the representation matrices of a point group under given basis functions?
Take the $C_{3v}$ point group for example:
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3D Plot: Number of Roots in x of a polynomial in x, a, b and c
I have a polynomial in four variables x,a,b and c. The number of roots of the polynomial in x depends of the choice of a, b and c. I would like to have a 3D-Plot with a, b and c on the axes, while the ...
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Is it possible to use Composition for polynomial composition?
I want to do this:
$P = (x^3+x)$
$Q = (x^2+1)$
$P \circ Q = P \circ (x^2+1) = (x^2+1)^3+(x^2+1) = x^6+3x^4+4x^2+2$
I used Composition for testing if that could ...
