Questions tagged [expression-manipulation]
How to manipulate expressions structurally, not necessarily complying with the rules of algebra.
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Why does the kernel quit if I want to use minus a sum that I converted from a list?
Using Mathematica 11 when I define a list
yy = {x*43, 32*y};
and then convert it to a sum
yy[[0]] = Plus;
yy
I get, as ...
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Why doesn't Log[Gamma[]] simplify to LogGamma[] where it could?
I have been playing with various equations involving amount of permutations in relatively large sets. Easiest way to look at these is something like Log[10, bignumber!] . Often expressions, even ...
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Select certain term containing some patterns and confusing pattern Alternatives in FreeQ
I am considering a function termsContain[func_,list_] which select in an expression func the terms containing the ones in the ...
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How to find where in a large expression Power::infy is generated?
Consider the following expression:
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Bringing rational functions to canonical form
I have a complicated expression, which among other things has stuff like functions of rational functions:
expr = f[x/(-x^2 + y)] + f[-(x/(x^2 - y))] (* + ...*)
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How to combine DifferenceRoot objects for odd and even-indexed terms
I'm trying to analyze a certain infinite sequence $S$, indexed by positive integers starting from $1$. It can be split into two subsequences:
$S^{odd}$ by removing all even-indexed elements and ...
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Define quaternions by properties instead of coordinates
I'd like to manipulate an expression of quaternions and only use the following properties
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Computations with OptimizedExpressions without completely expanding them
I have to manipulate huge expressions that are rational functions of many (∼30) variables with integer coefficients. Storing them just as a ratio of two polynomials would be impractical. But they can ...
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How to do an arbitrary expression growth in Mathematica?
I want to write a function that can be used to grow an expression from a seed or another existing expression based on part specification.
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General rule to rewrite function and argument into a new symbol
I am trying to convert Mathematica output into equations I can plug into C. I am presently trying to convert expressions of the form
Derivative[1,0,0][f][t,x,y]
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Substitution of expressions using Groebner basis
I know this topic came up numerous times (most of the results are detailed in the comments of this link Is there a way to to substitute for symbols, simplify, and back-substitute?). However, I have ...
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Generating a list of 4-digit integers by simulating four dice being thrown eight times
I simulate throwing four dice and merge their values together to form a 4-digit number. This is done eight times and I want to get a list like this one:
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Create Association from Expression
I have a set of algebraic expressions of a certain form, and I would like to make them into Associations in a specified way. My expressions are formed of two heads, ...
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Derivative of vector dot product with respect to a vector
I have the expression:
Transpose[gvecI, {2, 1}].x (m[1] + m[2])
gvecI and x are [3x1] ...
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TrigExpand Idiosyncracies
TrigExpand[Sin[x]^2 Log[y]] returns sin^2(x) log(y), as one would expect. However, ...
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Rearranging an expression for floating point accuracy?
Does Mathematica have the feature of rearranging an expression with the goal of minimizing floating point accuracy errors? I'm asking this because I have some long expressions that really suffer when ...
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Unpacking list of arguments into parameters
I have a list in the following form:
list = {{a,1,3},{b,1,3},{c,1,3}}
Now I want to apply this list as parameters for the Sum function so that I end up with the ...
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Reading product of same ByteArrays
I am handling a huge set of data and I am trying to optimize my code. I have very large expressions to expand and simplify and I've seen that converting the expressions to ByteArrays improves a lot ...
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Distinguishing function calls from multiplication when importing LaTeX via ToExpression and TeXForm
I'm trying to parse a LaTeX representation of a Desmos calculator (like this one) via Mathematica.
Desmos exposes a JSON representation of its calculators, including a LaTeX representation of ...
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How to eliminate a variable from coupled ODEs?
I found this question with an answer:
How to eliminate variables in ODE?
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Finding the domain in which a function is analytic with no imaginary part
I was wondering if it is easy to see if a given expression evaluates to a real number in a given domain? Let e.g. f(x,y,z) be some function depending on three ...
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Fast way to apply permutations in large list?
I have one Polynomial in the form of FF[x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6,x7,x8], where xi pick numbers from ...
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Optimizing an equation - show the length of an equation, including operators
A simple, but I think useful question to know the answer for.
How can I quickly count the length in my equation, including +,-, and so on?
For example, $x^2+1$ has a length of 4.
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Lexicographical Search and Conjugate
I bid you a good day.
I want Mathematica to plug this assumed solution into the left hand side of a differential equation. Then collect terms of powers of $\alpha$.
$\psi (x,y)=\alpha f_1(y)e^{i x}+...
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Finding a selected expression
How can I find all expressions matching the one I am selecting?
This features exists in Matlab and is quite helpful:
Just trying to make my debugging easier.
Thanks!
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Canceling factors from numerator and denominator with complex number
I have the following expression:
$\text{expr} = i \frac{\sqrt{a-b}}{\sqrt{b-a}}x$.
Clearly simplifying expression gives $\text{expr}=x$ by cancelling the numerator and denominator. However, I am not ...
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How can I force the output of a computation to be as compact as possible, yet complete, by using functions?
I am computing some derivatives in Wolfram Mathematica 11.3. The functions that I have to differentiate (with respect to the state variables) are the equations of motion of a rocket in the atmosphere. ...
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how to sort an expression with descending coefficients?
I have an expression for example
psi = 0.24 FF1[0] FF2[1] FF3[-1] + 0.23 FF1[0] FF2[0] FF3[1] + 0.5 FF1[1] FF2[0] FF3[1] + 0.25 FF1[1] FF2[1] FF3[1]
I wonder how ...
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Do replacement only on certain specific forms
If I want to replace, say, a with a1 + a2 in an expression, I can write
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Collect/Expand with D
I am new to MMA and have a basic question.
I am trying to separate the derivatives of an expression for simplification.
E.g. on doing
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Split expression into nested list of summands, times and dot products
In order to avoid the XY Problem we might have encountered in another question I asked, here I ask a new question with full context:
I want to get a list representation of an expanded expression, ...
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Showing Cosh(I x) and Sinh (I x) rather than cosx and sinx?
The following code gives a function expressed in terms of sines and cosines. How to get the analogous with sinh and cosh, coming from the identities: sinx=sinh(Ix)/I and cosx=cosh(Ix)?
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ReplaceAll and derivatives
I have the following coming from a computation,
$$h_1 (u,v,w) = \frac{1}{v}\partial_v g(u,v,w)$$
and in Mathematica I have different quantities in terms of $h_1$ and its derivatives like $\...
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How to invert an Elliptic function where the elliptic nome is a function of an independent variable?
I have a Jacobian elliptic function as a function of two independent variables $x$ and $y$. The elliptic parameter $m=m(y)$, $0 \leq m \leq 1$, is also a function of the variable $y$, and thus the ...
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Force expression in certain form
Is there a function in Mathematica to force an expression to be transformed into a given form. For example f[x] is a function of ...
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How can PowerExpand be made to evaluate the ArcTan form that takes two arguments?
Consider
c = Cos[phi];
s = Sin[phi];
ArcTan[c, s] // PowerExpand
ArcTan[s/c] // PowerExpand
which yields
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Factoring rationals from equation based on digit complexity?
Consider an equation of the following type:
( poly = (3 x)/35 + (6 y)/7 ) == 0
If we apply the command Factor to this ...
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Matching Root[…] objects with patterns, unexpected hidden argument
I needed to write patterns that could distinguish between arbitrary-function and polynomial forms of Root objects, for example, ...
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How can I use a replacement rule as part of a simplification?
I am using Mathematica to symbolically calculate the likelihood for a simple linear regression model. As part of this I want to substitute
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Simplify the coefficient of an expression after calling Collect
I have an expression for which I have run Collect to get the expression in terms of a few variables. I now want to run Collect ...
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Any way to automate solving problems where the answer from one question is used in the next?
I am a total Mathematica beginner. I just want to use it to do some calculations, and the reason it is so interesting and attractive to me as an engineering student is that it allows me to write maths ...
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Shorten a sum of many terms by introducing a rule for scalar product and Kronecker deltas and using repeated replacements
There is a sum of many terms that I would like to simplify by introducing a notation for scalar product of two vectors. Each term is a product of constants and of several components of 3D vectors: <...
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Why are these expressions with shifted delta functions not equal?
I have the following equation
Exp[a-t]*DiracDelta[t-a] == DiracDelta[t-a]
which cannot be evaluated. However, if I plug in 0 for a:
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Calculate density of states for 1D system
The density of states for a 1D system can be written as:
$D\left(\omega\right)=\frac{L}{\pi}\frac{1}{d\omega\left(k\right)/dk}$
I have some expressions for $\omega\left(k\right)$:
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check if one expression can be transformed into another
My question is how to use Mathematica to check if one expression can be transformed into another:
Example 1:
$ax^2+bx+c$ into $K\cdot(x+\alpha)^2+\beta$, and then show me $K(a,b,c)$ and so on.
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Expanding complex expression and replacing variables in the result
When I'm finished expanding my expression I would like the result to be expressed again in terms of the original variables (like α, S1, T1, T2). I've tried replace, ...
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Rearranging expressions by DragAndDrop
I see that the DragAndDrop option for editing is not supported anymore. However, I think this could be a really useful feature, for instance to rearrange the terms of an expression in the form we ...
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Transform rational equations to polynomial equations
I have a list of rational equations and I would like to convert it to a list of polynomial equations. I know that none of the variables and none of the denominators could ever be 0.
So far I have ...
