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Re: Matrix/Array Simplification

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  • Subject: [mg60125] Re: Matrix/Array Simplification
  • From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
  • Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 02:06:19 -0400 (EDT)
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Jon Palmer wrote:
> Mathematica will happilly simplify scalar expressions such as
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> Simplify[a*x + a*y] = a*(x+y)
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> My question is: Is there a simple way to simplfy matrices in a similar way?
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> For example suppose you have the diagonal matrix
> m = {{a x, 0}, {0, a y }}
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> can this matrix be simplified to the form
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> a * {{ x, 0}, {0,  y }}
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> Many thansk
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> Jon Palmer
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Hello,

One problem with the form you have specified is that it is not stable - 
if you give a scalar/matrix multiplication to Mathematica it will 
multiply it out!

You could however look for a suitable factor thus:

PolynomialGCD[m]

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk


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