How to substitute?
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- Subject: [mg45474] How to substitute?
- From: Steve Gray <stevebg at adelphia.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 05:20:43 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
\!\(\((y\_0 - z\_3)\)\ \((\(-y\_1\) + z\_3)\)\ \((\(-y\_2\) +
z\_3)\)\ \((\(-y\_3\) + z\_3)\)\)
I have output cells containing various expressions such as
(y[0]-z[1]) (y[1]-z[2]) (y[4] - z[0]), where I use [x] here to mean
subscript. The integers can have any small values. For compactness of
expression, I want to make substitutions which make the above
expression look like Q[0,1]Q[1,2]Q[4,0]. There are many combinations
of subscript pairs and I don't want to write explicit substitution
rules for every possible combination. I tried doing /.(y[i]-z[j]) ->
Q[i,j] , and /.(y[i_]-z[j_]) -> Q[i,j] but they don't work.
Any suggestions will be gratefully received.