Note that Sage's Maxima is still at 5.35.1... Hence my questions : tickets 
or not tickets ?

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Emanuel Charpentier

Le dimanche 13 novembre 2016 13:57:13 UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik a écrit :
>
> 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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