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What probably could be the inverse of following function?

y = (x^(1/t)-a^(1/t))*(x^(1/t)-c*b^(1/t))/(x^(1/t)-a^(1/t))*(x^(1/t)-c*b^(1/t))+
      (x^(1/t)-   b^(1/t))*x^(1/t)-c*a^(1/t)

a,b,c & t are the parameters. Any help is going to be highly appreciated.

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    – Sektor
    Commented Aug 11, 2013 at 18:00

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You can use Solve on an equation (== instead of =). It is essentially a quadratic equation, so there are two solutions. Either there is no inverse or there are two, depending whether you restrict the domain appropriately.

eqn = y == (x^(1/t) - a^(1/t))*(x^(1/t) - c*b^(1/t))/(x^(1/t) - a^(1/t))*(x^(1/t) - 
      c*b^(1/t)) + (x^(1/t) - b^(1/t))*x^(1/t) - c*a^(1/t);
soln = Solve[eqn, x]

(* {{x -> 4^-t (-b^((1/t)) (-1 - 2 c) -
           Sqrt[b^(2/t) + 8 a^(1/t) c + 4 b^(2/t) c - 4 b^(2/t) c^2 + 8 y])^t},
   {x -> 4^-t (-b^((1/t)) (-1 - 2 c) +
           Sqrt[b^(2/t) + 8 a^(1/t) c + 4 b^(2/t) c - 4 b^(2/t) c^2 + 8 y])^t}} *)

Check both solutions:

eqn /. soln // PowerExpand // Expand
(* {True, True} *)
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    – Arshad
    Commented Aug 11, 2013 at 18:33
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Inverse of a function is calculated using InverseFunction. So converting your equation to some function,

g[a_] = (x^(1/t) - 
     a^(1/t))*(x^(1/t) - c*b^(1/t))/(x^(1/t) - a^(1/t))*(x^(1/t) - 
     c*b^(1/t)) + (x^(1/t) - b^(1/t))*x^(1/t) - c*a^(1/t)

gft = InverseFunction[g]

Now checking it,

gft[4]  

gives ($\left(\frac{c^2 b^{2/t}-2 c b^{1/t} x^{1/t}-b^{1/t} x^{1/t}+2 x^{2/t}-4}{c}\right)^t$) which is probably the inverse function of your function. Repeat this with simple equation (say x^2), you shall get result as -Sqrt[2] for 4 as inverse.

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