Bug 319604 - Symbolic integration
Summary: Symbolic integration
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: analitza
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Aleix Pol
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Reported: 2013-05-10 04:57 UTC by Percy Camilo Triveño Aucahuasi
Modified: 2021-03-09 05:23 UTC (History)
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Description Percy Camilo Triveño Aucahuasi 2013-05-10 04:57:32 UTC
Support do symbolic integration of:

* Constants
* Polynomials (univariate)
* Transcendental function
* A linear combination of constants, transcendental function and univariate polynomials

I think you should start from basic expressions like single polynomials and  single transcendental functions should be simple (a constant term is the most trivial one)  Then when that is done you can explore how to do linear combinations of thoses.

For this I suggest create some helper class like ProvideIntegral, you can let the user to get the result with the constant (in case the integral is indefinite)

The API should integrate expressions like:
2
x*x
sin(x)
cos(x) + a
cos(x)^2
exp(x)

and linear combinations like:
3*2 + 3*x*x + 4*sin(x) - (cos(x)+a) - 5*cos(x)^2 + 77*exp(x)

Note: a is a parameter (variable in Variables module)

Suggested API

Expression Expression::integral(const Expression &exp, Variables *var = 0)

I'm sure this is challenging but I think is doable under the previous constraints, also this feature it would be a killer one and it will give to the users of *algebra a lot of happiness ;)


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Aleix Pol 2013-10-28 12:50:28 UTC
You talk about some constraints but I can't see them.
Comment 2 Percy Camilo Triveño Aucahuasi 2013-10-28 18:57:52 UTC
Hi Alex,

Constrains like:

Only for simple functions (basic rules):  
f(x)=ax+b
f(x)=sin(ax+b),cos(ax+b),tan,... trigonometric functions
f(x)=ln(ax+b)
f(x)=exp(ax+b)
f(x)=power(g(x), n), where g(x) is one of previous functions.
f(x)=linear combination of previous functions; I mean just multiply each function by a constant and sum all the functions

For those cases we can have the antiderivatives and even the definite integrals, so the command can be like:
integral(f(x),x) give us the antiderivative
integral(f(x),x,0,5) give use a number

So the integral command would take this args:
f: function
var: equivalent to dx, is the variable with respect the integral can be performed
and 2 optional args to computed numeric (or symbolic too) result:
from: a number or a symbol
to: a number or a symbol

For example if we write:
integral(f(x),x,0,t) 
then this give us an expression like F(t) where t is a symbolic var (var from varsmodule ;))

If you need more ideas, please tell me what can I help, I'm sure that if this feature will be implemented then it needs to do step by step.

Percy :)
Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 05:23:05 UTC
Thank you for the bug report.

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