Maxima Function
evundiff (expr)
Equivalent to the execution of undiff
, followed by ev
and
rediff
.
The point of this operation is to easily evalute expressions that cannot be directly evaluated in derivative form. For instance, the following causes an error:
(%i1) load(itensor); (%o1) /share/tensor/itensor.lisp (%i2) icurvature([i,j,k],[l],m); Maxima encountered a Lisp error: Error in $ICURVATURE [or a callee]: $ICURVATURE [or a callee] requires less than three arguments. Automatically continuing. To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
However, if icurvature
is entered in noun form, it can be evaluated
using evundiff
:
(%i3) ishow('icurvature([i,j,k],[l],m))$ l (%t3) icurvature i j k,m (%i4) ishow(evundiff(%))$ l l %1 l %1 (%t4) - ichr2 - ichr2 ichr2 - ichr2 ichr2 i k,j m %1 j i k,m %1 j,m i k l l %1 l %1 + ichr2 + ichr2 ichr2 + ichr2 ichr2 i j,k m %1 k i j,m %1 k,m i j
Note: In earlier versions of Maxima, derivative forms of the
Christoffel-symbols also could not be evaluated. This has been fixed now,
so evundiff
is no longer necessary for expressions like this:
(%i5) imetric(g); (%o5) done (%i6) ishow(ichr2([i,j],[k],l))$ k %3 g (g - g + g ) j %3,i l i j,%3 l i %3,j l (%t6) ----------------------------------------- 2 k %3 g (g - g + g ) ,l j %3,i i j,%3 i %3,j + ----------------------------------- 2