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Re: Bug in Series with NonCommutativeProduct?

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  • Subject: [mg122111] Re: Bug in Series with NonCommutativeProduct?
  • From: Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:54:40 -0400 (EDT)
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On 10/13/2011 02:48 AM, D J G C wrote:
>> Series[(A h) ** (B h), {h, 0, 2}]
>
> ... + A B  h^2+O[h]^3
>
> The problem is the appearance of a commutative product A B. It should
> instead be A ** B
>
> However applying the D gives the correct answer:
>
>> D[(A h ) ** (B h), {h, 2}]
>
> 0**(B h)+2 A**B+(A h)**0

It's just doing a "blind" Taylor expansion. One can see this by 
replacing NonCommutativeMultiply with some (undefined) function f:

In[242]:= Series[f[(A h), (B h)], {h, 0, 2}]

Out[242]= SeriesData[h, 0, {
f[0, 0], B Derivative[0, 1][f][0, 0] + A Derivative[1, 0][f][0, 0],
   Rational[1, 2] (
    B^2 Derivative[0, 2][f][0, 0] + 2 A B Derivative[1, 1][f][
      0, 0] + A^2 Derivative[2, 0][f][0, 0])}, 0, 3, 1]


Daniel Lichtblau
Wolfram Research



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