Various tools to manipulate and combine multivariate polynomials
Details
Package:
multipol
Type:
Package
Version:
1.0
Date:
2008-01-24
License:
GPL
Basically, coerce an array to a multivariate polynomial (a
“multipol”) using as.multipol().
Taking a matrix a as an example, because this has two dimensions
it may be viewed as a bivariate polynomial with a[i,j] being the
coefficient of x^i.y^j. Note the off-by-one issue; see
?Extract.
Multivariate polynomials of arbitrary arity are a straightforward
generalization using appropriately dimensioned arrays.
Arithmetic operations “+”,“-”,
“*”, “^” operate as though their arguments
are multivariate polynomials.
Even quite small multipols are computationally intense; many
coefficients have to be calculated and each is the sum of many terms.
The package would benefit enormously by being able to use a
sparse array class.
Author(s)
Robin K. S. Hankin
Maintainer: <r.hankin@noc.soton.ac.uk>
References
none really
Examples
ones(2)*linear(c(1,-1)) # x^2-y^2
ones(2)*(ones(2,2)-uni(2)) # x^3+y^3
a <- as.multipol(matrix(1:12,3,4))
a
a[1,1] <- 11
f <- as.function(a*a)
f(c(1,pi))