Re: complex conjugation by star
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- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 04:47:15 -0400 (EDT)
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Mathematica already has a built-in Conjugate function used in the form Conjugate[z] as well as a suffix operator with a star that may be typed Esc co Esc or \[Conjugate].
You should not use ordinary lower-case i to denote the imaginary unit; type either I or Esc ii Esc. And it's best to avoid using upper-case letters A, B, G, etc., to avoid clashes with built-in Mathematica symbols.
Automatically, Mathematica will do some of what you want:
{a, b, g}\[Conjugate]
(* {Conjugate[a], Conjugate[b], Conjugate[g]} *)
Evaluating an expression such as Element[a, Complexes] by itself accomplishes nothing and is _not_ "remembered" in any way for further calculations. The way to indicate symbols are to be treated as reals when doing complex-algebra calculations is to use ComplexExpand. Thus:
(x + I y)\[Conjugate] // ComplexExpand
(* x - I y *)
With the built-in Conjugate function, for your example with BesselJ, you'd need to use:
On Apr 18, 2014, at 1:46 AM, Brambilla Roberto Luigi (RSE) <Roberto.Brambilla at rse-web.it> wrote:
> I have defined the following useful star complex-conjugation (common star exponent notation)
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> f_*:=f/.Complex[u_,v_]->Complex[u,-v]
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> and it works fine. For example BesselJ[2,x+I y]* gives BesselJ[2,x-I y] etc...(x,y defined/undefined).
> Also it is listable on number lists
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> {1+i2, 5+i6}* gives {1-i2, 5-i6} .
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> Unfortunately it does not work on symbols, i.e.
> A* gives A even if I have defined A as a complex number by means of Element[A, Complexes].
> Similarly if I define Element[{A,B,G}, Complexes]
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> {A,B,G}* gives {A,B,G} and (A+B+G)* gives A+B+G.
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> I'd like to obtain {A*,B*,G*} and A*+B*+G* ( ! )
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> Is it possible to fix this deficiency, unpleasant in manipulating general expressions where is not known
> if symbols represent real or complex variables ?
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> Many thanks!
> Rob
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- complex conjugation by star