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From: | Fabio S. |
Subject: | Re: [Axiom-math] Symmetric Functions |
Date: | Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:42:23 +0200 (CEST) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) |
On 10/23/2014 01:45 PM, Fabio S. wrote:Consider the following polynomial G := (y-(a*u+b*v))*(y-(a*v+b*u)) It is symmetric both in (a,b) and (u,v). I would like to espress it as a polynomial in Z[s,t,u,v,y] where s=a+b and t=ab are the symmetric elementary funcitions on a and b Is it possible in axiom? In other words, I am looking for a command which having G as input, returns y^2 - s*(u+v)*y + (s^2-2*t)u*v + t*(u^2+v^2)According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_polynomial#Elementary_symmetric_polynomials the expression (u^2+v^2) doesn't look like an *elementary* symmetric polynomial in u and v.
Ralf, you are right of course. Maybe I didn't explain well what I looked for. I want the result to be expressed in term of the elementary symmetric polynomials in {a,b}, nothing else: even if what we have is symmetric also in the {u,v} and hence it can be expressed also in the elementary symmetric polynomials in {u,v}, I am not interested in this last expression.
I am interested in trasforming an expression in Z[a,b][u,v][y] which is symmetric in a and b in an expression in Z[s,t][u,v][y] Anyway, your answer is great (and perfectly satisfactory): thanks a lot! Fabio
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