Questions tagged [polynomials]
Questions on the functionality operating on polynomials
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Optimal way to extract “positive part” of a multivariate polynomial
I've got multivariate polynomials with numerical coefficients, like e. g.
p - s - p q^2 s^2 + 3 r s^2 + 3 r^2 s^2 - p r^2 s^2 - 2 q r^2 s^2 - 2 r^3 s^2 + s^3
and ...
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Plotting Chebyshev polynomials using PolarPlot and FilledCurve
This question is related to this answer.
What should I change in the following code to replace black color with blue color in the second image?
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Generalize polynomial coefficients from multiple equations
I have following equations:
$$\frac{1}{((a_1 - 1) f + 1)} + \frac{1}{((a_2 - 1) f + 1)} -k = 0$$
$$\frac{1}{((a_1 - 1) f + 1)} + \frac{1}{((a_1 - 1) f + 1)} + ... + \frac{1}{((a_n - 1) f + 1)} -k = 0$...
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NSolve gives weird result for $n=101$ with NSolve[$\frac{d}{dx}\prod \limits_{k=1}^n (x-k)$==0,x]
Coming from this post: What would be the roots of the derivate of this polynom I did a quick check with Mathematica and arrived at a wrong result. I was initially confused but chose to trust ...
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Mathematica function equivalent to Matlab's residue function (partial fraction expansion)
I am looking for a Mathematica function equivalent to Matlab's residue function.
If there is no Mathematica equivalent, I would like to write a function that given the coefficients of two polynomials ...
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Turning arguments into exponents
I'd like to replace every instance of L[stuff], e.g.,
L[-1,-2,-2]
in an expression with ...
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Factorization of multivariable polynomial
I have a polynomials of multivariable for instance: $P=yx+2^4xy+3+5^2xz+3^4zx $
Now I would like to do the following:
extract those temrs that only has $z$ .
extract terms that only has $y$
express ...
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Making polynomials representing frequency of a character in a list
Suppose I have the following list:
l={{"a"}, {"a", "h"}, {"a", "d", "k", "r", "v"}, {"a", "b", "c",
"k"}, {"a", "b", "c", "s", "u"}}
this list made of the ...
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Simplify the cubic root of cube assuming real and positive variable
I know this is very simple but I couldn't find a reasonable solution for it in the archive. It seems that my Mathematica does not take into account the assumptions when it wants to simplify the ...
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How to fit polynomial curve using Mathematica for multiple inputs?
I am new to mathematica. I have 3 inputs and 1 output. I want to find the 'N' th degree of polynomial which would approimately fit my dataset. I tried FindFit but it does not solve my problem. I also ...
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How to do arbitrary non-negative powered polynomial division in Mathematica?
Suppose I have a simple polynomial in $\{a,b\}$, defined as $a^k-b^k \ \forall \ k\in \mathbb{Z}^{\geq0}$. If I know one of the factor is $(a-b)$, is there a way to get a representation of its ...
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Zeros of high degree polynomials
I am working with Hermite polynomials in Mathematica with the built-in function HermiteH. I want to compute the zeros of the polynomial ...
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Sorting polynomials based on their y value and finding their intersection
I've got the following list of polynomials,
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Symbolic Resultant Too Slow/Keeps Running
Evalutation of the following cell, which includes the symbolic resultant, of two univariate polynomials in $x$, with parameters $a,b,c$ for the first polynomial (of degree 4) and parameters $d,e,f,g$ ...
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Collect more than one symbol and series
I have a complicated expression in function of 2 variables A and f that appears in all the possible combination.
For example
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How to find the largest degree of a polynomial?
I have a huge polynomial, and I am having the following issues
1. I wanted to find the largest and smallest degree of that polynomial.
2. How to truncate the lower order terms, sometimes higher order ...
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How do I treat polynomials as vectors?
From time to time I find myself in the following situation. I have generated a list of polynomials from some ring $R=\mathbb R[x_1,\ldots,x_n]$ and now I wish to view these polynomials as vectors in ...
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Alias for root of a polynomial
I need to work with a variable $u$ such that $u^2 + u + 1 = 0$. I don't want to find a root of the polynomial $u^2 + u + 1$. Rather, I have to work with $u$ symbolically so that a (polynomial) ...
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How to substitute integral operators into polynomials?
Suppose I have a polynomial
$a_0+a_1 f(x,t) + a_2 f(x,t)^2 + ....$.
In code,
a0 + a1 y + a2 y^2 + a3 y^3 /. y :> Integrate[Subscript[y, k] E^(I k y), k]
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Resultant running too slow
I have a system of equations all linear in one variable X with many parameters. I am trying to separate the variable in these equations by taking the pairwise resultants of one of the equation with ...
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Have I found bugs in Solve and Reduce? [closed]
f[x_] := x^3 - 2 x + 1;
Solve[f[x] == 0, x]
{{x -> 1}, {x -> 1/2 (-1 - Sqrt[5])}, {x -> 1/2 (-1 + Sqrt[5])}}
But ...
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Optimisation in the solution of Newton Interpolation
I have an exercise in which I have to solve the following Problem:
Given Newton formula for the representation of a polynomial $q(x)$ given the values $y_j$ of $q(x)$ for $j$ between 0 and 5
$q(x)= \...
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Parametric solution of a system of polynomial equations
I have the following system of equations,
1+x+y+z==0, 1+x*y+y*z+x*z==0
which I want to solve in the extension field of GF(2), the algebraic closure of GF(2) for ...
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Fastest way to simplify rational functions
I am using Series to approximate function of two variables:
Series[f[x,y],{x,0,m}]
the function is a complicated sum of ...
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How to write the shifted Chebyshev polynomials (the first kind) in mathematica?
Is it possible to write the shifted Chebyshev polynomials (the first kind) in Mathematica? The formula is:
$$P_n(x)=\sum_{k=0}^{\left\lfloor\tfrac{n}{2}\right\rfloor}(-1)^k 2^{n-2k-1}\frac{n}{n-k}\...
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How to expand a composite function into series?
I need to expand such a function
$$g[y,z(x,y)]=\frac{-y (z+1)^4-z^4-4 z^3+8 z+8}{z+1},\tag{1}$$ into powers of $x$ and $y$. Among $x,y,z$ there is a constraint equation, for example
$$(3 y+3) z^4+z^...
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Discrete convolution power
In my previous question we have discussed the posibility of various definition of convolution of power function within Mathematica. Now the question is "How to define convolution power in Mathematica ?...
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Factor not factoring quadratic polynomial [closed]
I'm using version 11.3
Expand[(Sqrt[2] - t)^2]
2 - 2 Sqrt[2] t + t^2,
but
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(Ir)reducible polynomials over some field
When I want to factor a polynomial, say $p(x)$ over $\mathbb{Q}[\sqrt{2}]$,
I can do
Factor[p(x), Extension -> {Sqrt[2]}]
what if I want to factor a ...
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Solving Polynomial Functions [duplicate]
How would I code the solution to this problem?
Let P be a polynomial satisfying P(x + 1) + P(x − 1) = x^3
for all real numbers x.
I am trying to find P(x)
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How to factor all coefficients of a multivariable into prime factors
I have several polynomials in 2 variables with integer coefficients, e.g.,
poly= -10 x - 10240 y^3 - 1520 x y^4;
I'd like to convert all such polynomials into a ...
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Monitoring PolynomialReduce/Alternatives for other CAS packages
I have a large generic polynomial That looks like
$N = \sum_{i_1,i_2\cdots}c_{i_1,i_2,i_3,\cdots} {x_{1}}^{i_1}{x_{2}}^{i_2}\cdots $
This could have anywhere between 3000-9000 terms with a maximum ...
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Splitting a general rational polynomial ansatz into powers
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This question is completely wrong and useless. It is mathematically incorrect. I think something like Series is sufficient if you're trying to do something ...
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Constant term of Laurent polynomial in many variables
What is the quickest way to extract the constant term from a Laurent polynomial in two variables?
For example $x+1 +x^{-2}y+x/y$ has constant term $+1$.
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How to make GroebnerBasis Work or to speed NSolve up [closed]
I consider a set of three polynomials of two variables
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Rewrite the power sum in terms of convolution
Let be an identity
$$n^{2m+1}=\sum_{r=0}^{m}A_{m,r}\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}k^r(n-k)^r,$$ where $A_{m,r}$ are real coefficients, see A302971 for numerators and formula of $A_{m,r}$. Here we can notice that $\...
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How to write a function of a polynomial
I will illustrate my problem with this example:
I want to make a function which, given a polynomial, gives me the value of the integral $\int_0^1(ax+bx^2)dx=a/2+b/3$.
Therefore, in this example, I ...
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Polynomial PowerMod
Is there equivalent of PowerMod for polynomials in Mathematica?
We have Mod[a^e,m]==PowerMod[a,e,m], $a$, $e$ and $m$ all ...
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Find $k= constant$ so that $disc= 0$ [closed]
Find $k= constant$ so that $\lceil$ https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=discriminant%5By%5E6%2By%5E2z%5E6%2Bz%5E2-y%5E2z%5E2(1%2By%5E2%2Bz%5E2)-k(1%2Bz%5E2)z%5E2(y%2Bz)(y-z)(z-1)(z%2B1)%5D,z%5D $\...
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Collect term in a distributive way
Consider
P = x (a2 b2 v^a2-1+a3 b3 v^a3-1+d1+d2-2 y)-(y-d1)(y-d2)-x
I would like to collect terms in (x,y,z) in a distributive way, that is
to get an expression ...
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Polynomial fit and Fourier transform plot
I'm pretty new to Mathematica so excuse me for obvious questions.
I have a dataset, second column contains invoice amount and the first column contains days passed between each invoice date starting ...
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Algebraic substitution for polynomial simplification
Consider a polynomial $p(x,y)$ and we want to simplify $p(x,y_0)$ where $y_0$ is a root of some other polynomial $q(y)$.
In Maple I would use something like:
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Simplifying polynomials [closed]
I have noticed a strange behaviour in Mathematica regarding simplifying polynomial expressions.
Take the following polynomials
pol1=3-8s+4s^2
pol2=(2s-1)(2s-3)
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How to make Orthogonalize simplify each new vector before using it to orthogonalize the next one?
I'm trying to construct a set of orthogonal polynomials, starting from a specially-prepared initial polynomials:
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The set of polynomials under the action by a symmetric group
Let
$$f(x_1,x_2,x_3)=\frac{x_1^r x_2^r \left(1-x_1 x_3\right) \left(1-x_2 x_3\right)}{\left(1-\frac{x_2}{x_1}\right) \left(1-\frac{x_3}{x_1}\right)\left(1-\frac{x_3}{x_2}\right)},$$
where $r$ is a ...
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Ranking polynomials based on global maxima
Suppose I have the following polynomials in an association i.e. <|...|>, they are:
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Finding the inverse of a function
I am to solve for $r(\rho)$ given the function,
\[Rho]Asymp[r_,b_,q_] := 1/(1 - q) Gamma[1/(1 - q)]/Gamma[(q - 2)/(q - 1)] r Sqrt[1 - (b/r)^(1 - q)]
This can be ...
