Re: (x-y) DiracDelta[x-y] does not simplify to 0
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- Subject: [mg56262] Re: (x-y) DiracDelta[x-y] does not simplify to 0
- From: "Dr. Wolfgang Hintze \(SBS\)" <wolfgang.hintze at siemens.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 05:32:06 -0400 (EDT)
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I was even more surprised by this:
In[3]:= Simplify[(x - y)*DiracDelta[x - y], {x, y}]
Out[3]=0
As I don't know what {x,y} means here.
I found it by playing around with the more meaningful {x>y},{x<y},{x==y}
Wolfgang
"Alain Cochard" <alain at geophysik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote in message
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> Mathematica 4.0 for Linux
> Copyright 1988-1999 Wolfram Research, Inc.
> -- Motif graphics initialized --
>
> Considering that
>
> In[1]:= FullSimplify[x DiracDelta[x]]
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> Out[1]= 0
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> I was surprised about this one:
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> In[2]:= FullSimplify[(x-y) DiracDelta[x-y]]
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> Out[2]= (x - y) DiracDelta[x - y]
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> whereas:
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> In[3]:= FullSimplify[(x-y) DiracDelta[x-y]/.x-y->z]
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> Out[3]= 0
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> Is it simply that Mathematica is a little weak on Out[2], or does it have a
> good reason for not simplifying, i.e., am I missing something at the
> mathematics level?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alain
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