Re: Algebra on complex expressions: Collect
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- Subject: [mg15238] Re: Algebra on complex expressions: Collect
- From: Rolf Mertig <rolf at mertig.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 03:58:30 -0500
- Organization: Mertig Research & Consulting
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Ross, Sean wrote: > > Does anyone know a way to have a Collect -like function work on > expressions with complex numbers? If I have an expression with "x" in > it, I can use Collect[expr,x], but if I have an expression with "I" in > it, Collect[expr,I] does not separate the expression into a part with > and without "I" which would be equivalent to separating the expression > into real and imaginary parts given all symbols were real. > > The RealOnly package does not seem to apply as it excludes imaginary > numbers alltogether. ComplexExpand results in a ridiculous amount of > complexity and is worse than nothing for this purpose. Expanding and > multiplying numerator and denominator separately by the complex > conjugate of the denominator is tedious to do manually and results in > the same problem of no way to neatly separate the real and imaginary > parts of a symbolic expression given that all symbols are real. > > Thanks. > > Sean Ross > > Please reply to rosss at plk.af.mil as I no longer subscribe to the > mathgroup. You can read mathgroup through www.dejanews.com without subscribing, right? In[1]:= cc[z_,r___]:=Collect[z/.Complex[w_,v_]:>comp[w,v],comp[__],r]/.comp->Complex In[2]:= cc[ (a+b I) c + (d+e I) x] Out[2]= a c + d x + I (b c + e x) -- Dr. Rolf Mertig Mertig Research & Consulting Mathematica training and programming Development and distribution of FeynCalc Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://www.mertig.com