Questions tagged [series-expansion]
Questions on dealing with series data and constructing power series expansions of functions.
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Reducing a symbolic expression to only its lowest-order terms
Suppose I have an expression which is a collection of symbols and integers arbitrarily combined with Plus and Times. For example,...
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Approximately solving this equation among probabilities/LLRs symbolically
Consider three independent Bernoulli events $A, B, C$ with success probabilities $p, q$ and $r$ respectively. Let us define two more derived events $L$ and $M$ with probabilities $p_1$ and $p_2$ given ...
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Can series expansion variable be substituted with numeric value?
The documentation page for Series under the section Possible issues states that
"Numeric values cannot be substituted directly for the expansion variable in a ...
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Expansion of standard inverse normal cdf
Let $\Phi: x\rightarrow y$ be the CDF of a standard normal distribution. The range of $\Phi(x)$ is $[0,1]$ and the domain is all real numbers.
I want to get a series expansion of $\Phi^{-1}(y)$ around ...
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How to determine the order of poles of a symbolic expression in Mathematica?
Consider the following trigonometric sum in Mathematica:
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Error with series of spherical bessel SphericalBessel?
Below seems like some error in the spherical bessel series expansion around an arbitrary number a. All terms below should be equal. Except term1 is different from all the others!
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Help with asymptotics on an interesting sum
I recently learned an interesting limit and was trying to understand the asymptotics. Unfortunately I'm getting nowhere.
Take ...
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Why does Mathematica get the infinite sum of this representation of the taylor series of $\cos^2(x)$ wrong?
Bug introduced in 7.0, persisting through 14.3.
Mathematica correctly identifies this sum as $\cos(x)$:
Sum[((-1)^n x^(2 n))/(2 n)!, {n, 0, Infinity}]
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Defining multilinear function series expansion
I want to define an abstract multilinear function mlfunc in arbitrary arguments with the standard algebraic and analytic properties.
Implementing algebraic ...
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Finding asymptotes of a function defined by a relation of two variables
Based on this question, how does one analytically compute the asymptotes for the equation defined by:
$$(x+y+2)(x+y)^2 = x+9y-2 ?$$
I can easily plot the curve...
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Inconsistent recurrence relation for Weierstrass sigma function double series between MathWorld and DLMF
There is a curious recurrence relation for double series of Weierstrass sigma function listed at DLMF defition 23.9.8
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a_{m,n} = 3(m+1) a_{m+1,n-1} + \frac{16}{3}(n+1) a_{m-2,n+1} - \frac{1}{3}(2m+...
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Trying to invert a series in Mathematica
I have the function J in two variables $m$ and $l$, which I obtained doing a series for $e$ and replacing $m \rightarrow e\cdot m$ and $l\rightarrow e\cdot l$, given by
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J(l,m):=& -2 \...
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Help to try and make my code finish running. Series of incomplete elliptic integrals
I have the following code
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How to syntax products and append each result to a table?
I'm still trying to learn how to code the results of the LHS and RHS of this famous equation into a table:
$$\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac1n=\prod_{i=1}^\infty\frac{1}{1-\frac{1}{p_i}}\tag{A}$$
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Result of Series inconsistent with requested order of expansion
Consider the following simple Series invocation,
Series[a*x^2, {x, 0, 1}]
In Mathematica 14.3 it returns
a*x^2+O[x]^3
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