Re: ComplexExpand
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- Subject: [mg44322] Re: [mg44280] ComplexExpand
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:00:54 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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In Mathematica 5.0:
Sum[Binomial[n, k]Cos[x(n - 2k)], {k, 0, n}]
2^n*Cos[x]^n
(where the output abov is shown in its equivalent InputForm).
Note that you omitted a closing parentheses below in the argument to Cos.
Friedrich Laher wrote:
> It IS TRUE, for integer n > 0 and real x
> that
> for s = Sum[Binomial[n,k]Cos[x(n-2k],{k,0,n}]
>
> s ==(2 Cos[x])^n
> but
> the only way to verify that by mathematica
> seems to be
>
> (s/.n -> m)/(s/.n -> m-1)
> which
> results in 2 Cos[x]
>
> ComplexExpand[s]
>
> does not know that s is real of value (2 Cos[x])^n
>
> even if
>
> s = Simplify[Sum[Binomial[n,k]Cos[x(n-2k],{k,0,n}],
> Element[x, Reals] && Element[n,Integers] && n > 0]
>
> does not know that s is real of value (2 Cos[x])^n
>
>
>
>
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Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
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- References:
- ComplexExpand
- From: Friedrich Laher <mathefritz@schmieder-laher.de>
- ComplexExpand