Alasdair wrote:
> 
> Actually, there's one minor problem: the mixed partial derivatives are 
> treated as different objects, so I have to do
> 
> kxy := eval(D(f(x,z),[x,z]),z=y(x))
> > kyx := eval(D(f(x,z),[z,x]),z=y(x))
> >
> > subst(f2,[kxy=F[xy],kyx=F[xy])
> >
> 
> which is clearly going to become prohibitive for larger numbers of 
> variables.  How can I convince Fricas that D(f(x,z),[x,z]) and 
> D(f(x,z),[z,x]) are in fact the same?

I am affraid that ATM substitution is the only way.  FriCAS
should automatically do such simplification, I will try to
implement this.
 
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                              Waldek Hebisch
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