Re: L2 inner product. Integrate and Conjugate?
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- Subject: [mg36340] Re: [mg36308] L2 inner product. Integrate and Conjugate?
- From: Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 04:08:50 -0400 (EDT)
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Andreas Dietrich wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I am trying to implement the inner product in the space of
> complex-valued, square integrable functions over [-1/2,1/2], which can
> be expressed in Mathematica code as
>
> inner[f_Function,g_function]:=Integrate[Conjugate[f[x]]*g[x],{x,-1/2,1/2}]
>
> This is simple enough. Problem is, Mathematica seamingly cannot
> evaluate the Integral for even the simplest of functions:
> In[10]:=inner[#&,#&]
>
> Out[10]:=\!\(\[Integral]\_\(-\(1\/2\)\)\%\(1\/2\)\(x\ Conjugate[
> x]\) \[DifferentialD]x\)
>
> As you see, the Integrate returns unevaluated. It works fine if I
> remove the Conjugate. Unfortunately the Conjugate is needed for
> positive definiteness.
>
> Various variants with Composition, Re and Im etc. don't work either.
>
> This should be a So how do I get Integrate to work with Conjugate?
>
> I use Mathematica 4.1.2.0 on Linux/i386.
>
> Thank you,
> Andreas
>
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The deficiency has been addressed in our development version, at least
to the extent that it works on the simple example given above. For a
work-around in version 4 one might do as below.
inner2[f_Function, g_Function] :=
Integrate[(Re[f[x]] - I*Im[f[x]])*g[x], {x, -1/2, 1/2}]
In[2]:= inner2[# &, # &]
1
Out[2]= --
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Daniel Lichtblau
Wolfram Research