Re: Change of Basis function
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- Subject: [mg68990] Re: [mg68949] Change of Basis function
- From: "Carl K. Woll" <carlw at wolfram.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:04:27 -0400 (EDT)
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David Boily wrote:
> I would like to know if there is a function capable of giving as output
> the representation of a vector in a given basis. For example:
>
> FunctionX[{1,2,3}, {{1,2,0},{0,1,0},{0,0,1}}]
>
> (where the first argument is the vector and the second the basis)
>
> would yield
>
> {1,0,3}
>
> and
>
> FunctionX[f x1 - b x2 + x3 - x2, {x1,x2,x3}]
>
> would yield
>
> {f, -b-1, 1}
>
> I'm more interested in the second case, obviously, because the first one
> can be achieved with a simple matrix multiplication.
>
> David Boily
> Center for Intelligent Machines
> Mcgill University
To answer your second question, you can use LinearEquationsToMatrices
from the LinearAlgebra`MatrixManipulation` package, or just use
Developer`LinearExpressionToMatrix directly:
In[1]:=
Developer`LinearExpressionToMatrix[f x1-b x2+x3-x2,{x1,x2,x3}]
Out[1]=
{{{f,-b-1,1}},{0}}
Carl Woll
Wolfram Research
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- Change of Basis function
- From: David Boily <dsboily@fastmail.ca>
- Change of Basis function