Mathematica cannot simplify a product of UnitStep functions
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- Subject: [mg55118] Mathematica cannot simplify a product of UnitStep functions
- From: Alain Cochard <alain at geophysik.uni-muenchen.de>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:57:37 -0500 (EST)
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Consider the following: Mathematica 4.0 for Linux Copyright 1988-1999 Wolfram Research, Inc. -- Motif graphics initialized -- In[1]:= e1=UnitStep[x-y]; e2=UnitStep[x-z]; In[2]:= FullSimplify[{e1,e2,e1*e2},x<y<z] Out[2]= {0, 0, UnitStep[x - y, x - z]} I find it strange that it cannot simplify the product to 0. Is there something mathematically profound here, implying that the true result is indeed not 0?? (At least I hope it's not something trivial!) Assuming the answer is no, is there a smarter/more elegant way to perform the simplification than the workaround I found, which is to simplify each term and multiply them. Thanks in advance. AC
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