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When performing manipulations on nested series, I need the series to retain the nesting order I originally defined. In Mathematica versions 8.0 and 10.4, this was almost always the default behavior. However, I recently started using Mathematica 13.0 and found that this was no longer the case. The problem appears to occur whenever a Log[] term is introduced. For instance, see the following example:

test=SeriesData[x, 0, {SeriesData[e, 0, {5, 0, Rational[-15, 2], 0, Rational[15, 8], 0, Rational[5, 16], 0, Rational[15, 128]}, 0, 9, 1], 0, SeriesData[e, 0, {-6, 0, 24, 0, Rational[-99, 4], 0, Rational[21, 4], 0, Rational[51, 64]}, 0, 9, 1], SeriesData[e, 0, {3 a, 0, Rational[-39, 2] a, 0, Rational[189, 8] a, 0, Rational[-87, 16] a, 0, Rational[-111, 128] a}, 0, 9, 1], SeriesData[e, 0, {2 (Rational[-9, 2] + Rational[-3, 2] a^2), 0, 3 (9 + Rational[3, 2] a^2) + 2 (6 + Rational[15, 4] a^2), 0, 2 (Rational[45, 8] + Rational[-45, 16] a^2) + 3 (Rational[-117, 16] + Rational[-9, 4] a^2), 0, 2 (Rational[-165, 16] + Rational[15, 32] a^2) + 3 (Rational[-51, 8] + Rational[9, 16] a^2), 0, 2 (Rational[345, 128] + Rational[15, 256] a^2) + 3 (Rational[873, 256] + Rational[3, 32] a^2)}, 0, 9, 1], SeriesData[e, 0, {30 a, 0, (-138) a, 0, Rational[393, 4] a, 0, Rational[99, 2] a, 0, Rational[-1857, 64] a}, 0, 9, 1], SeriesData[e, 0, {3 a^2 + 2 (Rational[-27, 2] + Rational[-31, 2] a^2), 0, 3 (36 + Rational[45, 2] a^2) + 2 (9 + Rational[123, 4] a^2), 0, 3 (Rational[-111, 8] + Rational[-105, 4] a^2) + 2 (Rational[249, 8] + Rational[-123, 16] a^2), 0, 2 (Rational[-375, 16] + Rational[-413, 32] a^2) + 3 (Rational[-75, 2] + Rational[-91, 16] a^2), 0, 2 (Rational[-1575, 128] + Rational[1125, 256] a^2) + 3 (Rational[45, 128] + Rational[93, 16] a^2)}, 0, 9, 1]}, 3, 10, 1];

We can perform standard operations on this series such as multiplication/addition and keep x as the outer series without a problem. However, if we try the following operations

Print[test+Log[x]];
Print[ExpandAll[test+Log[x]]];
Print[ExpandAll[test+Log[x]*e^4*x^3]];
test[[3,1]]+=Log[x];
Print[test];
test[[3,1]]+=Log[e];
Print[test];

we find that all but the first rearrange the series so that e is on the outside.

This is a problem for my code, which involves a great number of series manipulations involving log terms. Thus far, I have been addressing the issue by manually going into logarithms and substituting in a dummy variable like "xx" for x. However, this is far from ideal, and it would be much simpler if I could change the behavior in a more universal manner. Otherwise, I may just have to stick with the older versions of Mathematica.

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  • $\begingroup$ My guess is that you're out of luck, since With[{s = ReplacePart[test, {3, 1} -> test[[3, 1]] + Log[x]]}, ReplacePart[s, {3, 1} -> s[[3, 1]] + Log[e]] ] has x on the outside, but if we replace Log[e] -> 0 in it, it automatically reverts to e on the outside. $\endgroup$
    – Michael E2
    May 23, 2022 at 18:49
  • $\begingroup$ Yes, I was afraid that might be the case. This new behavior seems rather curious. I wonder what was changed in the Series functionality to have it check for Log terms and then reevaluate like this. $\endgroup$
    – cmm0052
    May 23, 2022 at 18:56
  • $\begingroup$ I can't figure out what you want. Does this help? Collect[test, e] or this: Map[Simplify, Collect[test, e], 2] or this Map[Simplify[Collect[#, a]] &, Collect[test, x], 2]? You might also take a look at ComplexityFunction $\endgroup$
    – Craig Carter
    May 24, 2022 at 6:16
  • $\begingroup$ Also, instead of manually inserting a dummy variable, you could do this: expr = expr/.x->xx $\endgroup$
    – Craig Carter
    May 24, 2022 at 6:17

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