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Hold and Simplify

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  • Subject: [mg77143] Hold and Simplify
  • From: "news.inode.at" <paul.g.schneider at google.com>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 06:25:56 -0400 (EDT)


Hi,



I would like to change Exponential functions of sums to products of

exponential functions. From reading postings from the year 2004 I tried

the following:



f[Exp[x_ + y_]] := Exp[x + y] /. Exp[a_ + b_] :> HoldForm[Exp[x]*Exp[y]];



Simplify[Exp[a + b], TransformationFunctions -> f]



Unfortunately this gave me

Exp[a+b]



I had more luck with



rule = {Exp[a_ + b_] -> f[Exp[a + b]]}



ReplaceRepeated[Exp[a + b], rule]



which gave me Exp[a]Exp[b]



Trying





ReplaceRepeated[Exp[a + b + c], rule]

gave me:

Exp[a]Exp[b+c]



Why doesn't the TransformationFunction trick work? Why does

ReplacedRepeated stop?





My ultimate goal would be the following: (I need to transfer large

formulae into C code and would like to avoid use of exponential function

as much as possible)



myreplacelist={Exp[var1]->expvar1, Exp[var2]->expvar2}

myformula=Exp[2 var1 - 3 var2 + a * Exp[var1]];



ultimate rule applied to my formula gives:



expvar1 * expvar1 / (expvar2 * expvar2 * expvar2) * Exp[a expvar1]



Thanks for your time!



best,



Paul








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