Re: Simple question about inverse of a function
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- Subject: [mg122593] Re: Simple question about inverse of a function
- From: Mikael <mikaen.anderson.1969 at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 06:23:33 -0500 (EST)
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> Hi,
>
> > I have a simple question on how to calculate the
> inverse of a a function. This is the function I
> define:
> >
> > f[t_] := (1 - t)^theta
> >
> > To calculate the inverse I write:
> >
> > Assuming[t>= 0&& t<= 1&& theta>= 1&& theta<
> Infinity, { InverseFunction[f[t]]}]
> >
> > but the answer I get is
> >
> > {InverseFunction[(1 - t)^theta]}.
> >
> > Now I know I can do this:
> >
> > In[11]:= Solve[f[g[x]]==x,g[x]]
> > Out[11]= {{g[x]->1-x^(1/theta)}}
> >
> > but I wonder what is the correct way of specifying
> assumptions on t and theta to make the
> InverseFunction work. Thanks.
> >
> It has nothing to do with the assumptions, you just
> should not specify
> the argument. This will do what you want:
>
> finv = InverseFunction[f]
>
> it will warn about multivalued inverses, and I don't
> think you can avoid
> that warning with appropriate assumptions for theta
> in that case. Of
> course you can use Quiet to suppress it, but then you
> should be sure
> that everything is alright for your use cases...
>
> hth,
>
> albert
>
Many thanks to Albert and Simon for explaining the problem.