Setting order of variables other than alphabetical.
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- Subject: [mg21077] Setting order of variables other than alphabetical.
- From: chesri <chesri at leonis.nus.edu.sg>
- Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:51:44 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: National University of Singapore
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello!
I am a regular user of MATHEMATICA, and while doing problems in
dynamical system theory, I have faced following problem.
Consider a term involving power series expansion terms. (These terms too
were generated using MATHEMATICA functions.)
( e x10 +d x01+ e^2 x20 + 2 ed x11 + d^2 x02 + ...) ( e x10 +d x01+ e^2
x20
+ 2 ed x11 + d^2 x02 + ...)
The term in third order should be, for x1 = x10 = x01,
e^3 (x1 x2 + x2 x1)
but MATHEMATICA re-orders terms in alphabetical order and writes the
term as
e^3 (2 x1 x2)
which is incorrect, if x1 and x2 are (column) vectors in R^n,
i.e. x1 x2 [\NOT] = x2 x1.
Now it is possible to define a variable as is done to define it to be a
real or integer by setting an attribute, in MATHEMATICA as a general
condition, but it is not possible to define it as a vector.
Does anyone know how to effectively set this problem right?
Satish