Re: symbolic matrix manipulation
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- Subject: [mg96080] Re: [mg96042] symbolic matrix manipulation
- From: Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 05:21:18 -0500 (EST)
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ashwin.tulapurkar at gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to simplify the following matrix expression: > a.b.b.a with the rule: replace a.b by (b.a+1). So I expect the final > output to be > a.b.b.a --> (b.a+1).b.a --> b.a.b.a+b.a --> b.(b.a+1).a+b.a --> > b.b.a.a + 2 b.a > > Can you tell me how to do this? > > Thanks. > -Ashwin This really looks more like something from a general setting of noncommutative algebra. I'll recast that way so as to avoid explicit use of matrix operators such as Dot, which will not handle this well. I'm adapting code from http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Conferences/325/ I use a "multiplication" operator I call ncTimes. I designate the symbol s for variables to be treated as noncommuting. We impose a commutator relation that s[i] s[j] = s[j] s[i] + 1 for j>i (so we just need to make sure b correspnds to an s ariable with larger index than a). ncTimes[] := 1 ncTimes[a_] := a ncTimes[a___,x_+y_,b___] := ncTimes[a,x,b] + ncTimes[a,y,b] ncTimes[a___,ncTimes[b_,c__],d___] := ncTimes[a,b,c,d] ncTimes[a___,i_Integer*c_,b___] := i*ncTimes[a,c,b] ncTimes[a___,i_Integer,b___] := i*ncTimes[a,b] ncTimes[a___,s[i_Integer],s[j_Integer],b___] /; j>i := ncTimes[a,s[j],s[i],b]+ncTimes[a,b] a = s[1]; b = s[2]; Your example, in this setting, is done as below. In[10]:= ncTimes[a,b,b,a] Out[10]= 2 ncTimes[s[2], s[1]] + ncTimes[s[2], s[2], s[1], s[1]] Daniel Lichtblau Wolfram Research
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