Re: Hyperbolic function identity
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg50942] Re: [mg50932] Hyperbolic function identity
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 02:10:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 28 Sep 2004, at 13:58, Carlos Felippa wrote: > Why > > FullSimplify[ArcCosh[1+z^2/2]-2*ArcSinh[z/2],z>0]; > > does not evaluate to 0? > > This works. FullSimplify[TrigToExp[ArcCosh[1 + z^2/2] - 2*ArcSinh[z/2]], z > 0] 0 I think TrigToExp is already among the functions that FullSimplify uses and indeed this does not help: FullSimplify[ArcCosh[1 + z^2/2] - 2*ArcSinh[z/2], z > 0, TransformationFunctions -> {Automatic, TrigToExp}] ArcCosh[z^2/2 + 1] - 2*ArcSinh[z/2] However, this again works: Simplify[ArcCosh[1+z^2/2]-2*ArcSinh[z/ 2],z>0,TransformationFunctions->{Automatic, FullSimplify[TrigToExp[#],z>0]&}] 0 Andrzej Kozlowski Chiba, Japan http://www.akikoz.net/~andrzej/ http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/