Re: Integrating DiracDelta in Mathematica: how to suppress ConditionalExpression
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- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 02:31:44 -0400 (EDT)
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On 10/7/12 at 1:32 AM, ybhattacharya at gmail.com (Yaj) wrote: >For the integral shown below, how do I get Mathematica to output >only the "correct" answer as 1 (for future steps in the notebook) >and i.e. have Mathematica NOT OUTPUT the ConditionalExpresssion that >q2 is real etc? >In[5]:= Integrate[DiracDelta[p - q2], {p, -Infinity, Infinity}] >Out[5]:= ConditionalExpression[1, q2 \[Element] Reals] In[1]:= Assuming[q2 \[Element] Reals, Integrate[DiracDelta[p - q2], {p, -Infinity, Infinity}]] Out[1]= 1 In[3]:= Integrate[DiracDelta[p - q2], {p, -Infinity, Infinity}, Assumptions -> q2 \[Element] Reals] Out[3]= 1 In[4]:= Integrate[DiracDelta[p - q2], {p, -Infinity, Infinity}, GenerateConditions -> False] Out[4]= 1