Re: Simplifying Jacobian elliptic functions
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- Subject: [mg55637] Re: Simplifying Jacobian elliptic functions
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 05:36:09 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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Hi, Unprotect[Plus] JacobiDN[p_, k_]^2 + k_ JacobiSN[p_, k_]^2 := 1 Protect[Plus] Regards Jens "John Billingham" <John.Billingham at Nottingham.ac.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:d2g5qo$f3h$1 at smc.vnet.net... >I am doing a problem involving Jacobian elliptic >functions, and am trying to use Mathematica to >help. However, I find that I am unable to >persuade Mathematica to simplify the expression > > JacobiDN[p, k^2]^2 + k^2 JacobiSN[p, k^2]^2 > > which is equal to 1. It is also unable to > integrate powers of Jacobian elliptic functions > higher than 2, which are given by Byrd and > Friedman in terms of elliptic functions and > integrals. > > Can anyone help with this? > > Thanks, > > John >