Dear Ralf,
thank you for help! I have got program working.
I am sorry for being annoying, but I only start using axiom.
Thank you ;)

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 07/16/2010 12:52 PM, Vladimir Skokov wrote:
>
>> The problem is that my function contains logs, it is not just Taylor
>> series.
>>
>
>  For instance, I'd like to  expand f(x,y)log(x) + g(x,y) at x=0, y=0.
>> So I expect to obtain
>>  (expansion of f(x,y)) * log(x) + expansion of g(x,y)
>>
>
> Why don't people write exact specifications? The above is meaningless
> unless you specify how your output should look like.
>
> Do you want to have a taylor series in x which has coefficients being
> taylor series in y? Or do you want the same with roles of x and y exchanged?
> Or do you want a *univariate* power series whose coefficients are
> (homogeneous) polynomials in x and y with a degree corresponding to the
> degree of the power in the taylor series?
>
> Specify exactly what you want otherwise nobody will be able to help you.
> I am not willing to guess your specification.
>
>
>  e.g. for one variable "series" does a good job
>> series(sin(x)*log(x),x=0)
>> (5) ->
>>    (5)
>>                log(x)  3   log(x)  5   log(x)  7   log(x)  9    log(x)
>> 11
>>      log(x)x - ------ x  + ------ x  - ------ x  + ------ x  - -------- x
>>                   6          120        5040       362880      39916800
>>    +
>>         12
>>      O(x  )
>>                    Type: GeneralUnivariatePowerSeries(Expression
>> Integer,x,0)
>>
>
>  However this is not Taylor series and therefore I cannot extract
>> coefficients as you specified.
>>
>
> ????
>
> Look at the type. So we have
>
> (3) -> coefficient(s,1)
>
>   (3)  log(x)
>                                   Type: Expression(Integer)
>
> I agree, that this might not be what you expected, but that is the problem
> with your input. You haven't exactly specified what you wanted.
> Believe it or not, Axiom considers "log(x)" as a separate variable.
>
> More natural would be something like
>
> U := UnivariateTaylorSeries(Fraction Integer, 'x, 1)
> x: U := x::U
> log(x)
>
>   (3)
>               1        2   1        3   1        4   1        5   1      6
>     (x - 1) - - (x - 1)  + - (x - 1)  - - (x - 1)  + - (x - 1)  - - (x - 1)
>               2            3            4            5            6
>   +
>     1        7   1        8   1        9    1        10            11
>     - (x - 1)  - - (x - 1)  + - (x - 1)  - -- (x - 1)   + O((x - 1)  )
>     7            8            9            10
>                          Type:
> UnivariateTaylorSeries(Fraction(Integer),x,1)
>
> Now the error message
>
>
> (6) -> sin x
>
>   >> Error detected within library code:
>   "sincos: series expansion involves transcendental constants"
>
>
> should be clear. The result is simply not representable, by a series with
> just rational coefficients.
>
> Try
>
> V := UnivariateTaylorSeries(Expression Integer, 'y, 1)
> y: V := y::V
> sin(y)
> sin(y)*log(y)
>
> instead.
>
> It all depends on what you want. AXIOM *is* different from other CAS.
>
>
>  Of course the example I have written is oversimplified. I do not know
>> the structure of the function, it can contain sin(log(x)) for example.
>>
>
> But you know what you want as a result.
>
>
>  Mathematica allows repeated series expansion, however it fails with
>> complicated expressions due to some memory limitation.
>>
>
> A Mathematica Series is a *truncated* series. Remove the initial terms and
> all you are left with is an O(x^10) expression which will not deliver any
> more coefficients. AXIOM's series really represent infinite objects.
>
> Ralf
>
>
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