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Re: Transforming an expression to publication form

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  • Subject: [mg120361] Re: Transforming an expression to publication form
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:31:40 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <201107191057.GAA10297@smc.vnet.net>


On 19 Jul 2011, at 11:57, carlos at colorado.edu wrote:

> Suppose I have the expression
>
> C11=A*Em*(4-3*omega^2+nu*(-8+3*omega^2)+(-4+8*nu)*Cos[kappa]);
>
> I want to transform this into
>
> C11pub=Em*A*(4*(1-2*nu)*(1-Cos[kappa])-3*(1-nu)*omega^2);
>
> which is the exactly the way it has to appear in a journal
> publication,
> once mapped to LaTeX.  Both C11 and C11pub have the
> same LeafCount (27), and C11 is invariant under Simplify
> and FullSimplify.
>
> How do I accomplish  C11 -> C11pub within Mathematica,
> without using any extra packages?  BTW this is part of one
> of 36 matrix entries, so transforming all by hand takes a while.
>

On the one hand: in general, it is not reasonable to expect Mathematica 
to do such things. It is not really intended for this purpose and while 
one can often succeed by using special tricks, there is no general 
approach and I don't think it is worth spending time on uncovering the 
tricks needed in an individual case.

On the other hand, in this particular case it is rather easy to see 
these "tricks".  Namely:

C11 = A*Em*(4 - 3*omega^2 +
    nu*(-8 + 3*omega^2) + (-4 + 8*nu)*Cos[kappa])

Collect[Collect[C11, omega, Factor], {Em, A}]

A Em (4 (2 nu-1) (cos(kappa)-1)+3 (nu-1) omega^2)

This is essentially your C11pub except for some signs in a few places.

Andrzej Kozlowski


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