this looks like bug in 5.38.1 that we patch on
https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18920
by importing their fix which  is not in a release yet:

https://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/diff/build/pkgs/maxima/patches/0001-In-eigenvectors-iterate-over-all-eigenvalues.patch?id=3afa33ba089b4b13e80ec9fbf41d7f83b7c00645



On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 12:38:04 PM UTC, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
>
> Problem : exhibit a concrete example of non-commutative operations to 
> students stuck (at best) at high-school level in mathematics.
> Idea of solution : use rotations in R^3 : they can been (literally) shown.
>
> But I stumbled on the (apparently) simple step of computing the invariant 
> vector (= axis) of the rotation, which fails, except in trivial cases. 
> Let's setup an example (editer transcript of a session with cut'n aste from 
> an editor) :
>
> sage: var("x,y,z,theta,phi", domain="real")
> ## Rotation of angle theta about the X axis :
> ....: 
> M_x=matrix([[1,0,0],[0,cos(theta),-sin(theta)],[0,sin(theta),cos(theta)]])
> ## Ditto, angle phi about the Y axis :
> ....: M_y=Matrix([[cos(phi),0,-sin(phi)],[0,1,0],[sin(phi),0,cos(phi)]])
> ## A vector
> ....: V=vector([x,y,z])
> ....: 
> (x, y, z, theta, phi)
>
> Try to find the axis of (the rotation whose matrix is )M_x :
>
> sage: S_x=solve((M_x*V-V).list(),V.list());S_x
> [[x == r1, y == 0, z == 0]]
>
> So far, so good : one solution, easy to check :
>
> sage: V_x=vector(map(lambda e:e.rhs(), S_x[0]))
> ....: (M_x*V_x-V_x).simplify_trig()
> ....: 
> (0, 0, 0)
>
> Things go pear-shaped when we try to find the axis of the composition of 
> the rotations about X and Y axes :
>
> sage: S_yx_bad=solve((M_y*M_x*V-V).list(),V.list());S_yx_bad
> [[x == 0, y == 0, z == 0]]
>
> A rotation with no axis ? Now, now...
>
> I have explored a bit this (Maxima) problem, which led me to file Maxima's 
> ticket 3239 <https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3239/>. It turns out 
> that this is a Maxima error solving a simple linear equarion with 
> complicated coefficients.
>
> Now, there is a workaround in sage : use Sympy's solvers :
>
> sage: import sympy
> ....: D_yx=sympy.solve((M_y*M_x*V-V).list(),V.list());D_yx
> ....: 
> {x: -z*sin(phi)/(cos(phi) - 1), y: z*sin(theta)/(cos(theta) - 1)}
>
> Checking it is a bit more intricate, since this solution is expressed as 
> Sympy's objects. But it can be done :
>
> sage: SD_yx={k._sage_():D_yx.get(k)._sage_() for k in D_yx.keys()}
> ....: V_yx=vector([SD_yx.get(x),SD_yx.get(y),z])
> ....: (M_y*M_x*V_yx-V_yx).simplify_trig()
> ....: 
> (0, 0, 0)
>
> This one doesn't seem to be covered in the "Solve tickets'" section of the 
> Track symbolics <https://trac.sagemath.org/wiki/symbolics> page. Does 
> this problem deserve a specific ticket ?
>
> And, by the way, (M_y*M_x).eigenvectors_right() :
>
>    1. needs about 10 minutes to
>    2. return an absolutely unusable solution (a few tens pages...).
>
>
> Is this one known ? Does it deserve a ticket ?
>
> Now for the suggestion : could we emulate what has been done with 
> integrate(), and add an option "algorithm=" to Sage's solve ?
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Emmanuel Charpentier
>

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