Matrix/Array Simplification
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- Subject: [mg60100] Matrix/Array Simplification
- From: "Jon Palmer" <Jonathan.palmerNOSPAM at new.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 04:33:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Oxford University, England
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Mathematica will happilly simplify scalar expressions such as
Simplify[a*x + a*y] = a*(x+y)
My question is: Is there a simple way to simplfy matrices in a similar way?
For example suppose you have the diagonal matrix
m = {{a x, 0}, {0, a y }}
can this matrix be simplified to the form
a * {{ x, 0}, {0, y }}
Many thansk
Jon Palmer