How to simplify lengthy symbolic expressons in SymPy - sympy

I have been working on some integrations and even though the system is working, it takes much more time to work than it should.
The problem is that the expressions are many pages, and even though they are 3 variables only, sy.simplify just crashes the Kernel after 4 hours or so.
Is there a way to make such lengthy expressions more compact?
EDIT:
Trying to recreate a test expression, using cse. I can't really substitute the symbols to make a final expression, equal to the 1st one
sy.var('a:c x')
testexp = sp.log(x)+a*(0.5*x)**2+(b*(0.5*x)**2+b+sp.log(x))/c
r, e = sy.cse(testexp)
FinalFunction = sy.lambdify(r[0:][0]+(a,b,c,x),e[0])
Points = sy.lambdify((a,b,c,x),r[0:][1])
FinalFunction(Points(1,1,1,1),1,1,1,1)
>>>NameError: name 'x1' is not defined

cse(expr) is sometimes a way to get a more compact representation since repeated subexpressions can be replaced with a single symbol. cse returns a list of repeated expressions and a list of expressions (a singleton if you only passed a single expression):
>>> from sympy import solve
>>> var('a:c x');solve(a*x**2+b*x+c, x)
(a, b, c, x)
[(-b + sqrt(-4*a*c + b**2))/(2*a), -(b + sqrt(-4*a*c + b**2))/(2*a)]
>>> r, e = cse(_)
>>> for i in r: pprint(Eq(*i))
...
_____________
╱ 2
x₀ = ╲╱ -4⋅a⋅c + b
1
x₁ = ───
2⋅a
>>> for i in e: pprint(i)
...
x₁⋅(-b + x₀)
-x₁⋅(b + x₀)
You are still going to have long expressions but they will be represented more compactly (and more efficiently for computatation) if cse is able to identify repeated subexpressions.
To use this in SymPy you can create two Lambdas: one to translate the variables into the replacement values and the other to use those values:
>>> v = (a,b,c,x)
>>> Pts = Lambda(v, tuple([i[1] for i in r]+list(v)))
>>> Pts(1,2,3,4)
(2*sqrt(2)*I, 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 4)
>>> Func = Lambda(tuple([i[0] for i in r]+list(v)), tuple(e))
>>> Func(*Pts(1,2,3,4))
(-1 + sqrt(2)*I, -1 - sqrt(2)*I)

Related

Substitute numerical constants with symbols in sympy

I have a question similar to this one: How to substitute multiple symbols in an expression in sympy? but in reverse.
I have a sympy expression with numerical values and symbols alike. I would like to substitute all numerical values with symbolic constants. I appreciate that such query is uncommon for sympy. What can I try next?
For example, I have:
-0.5967695*sin(0.15280747*x0 + 0.89256966) + 0.5967695*sin(sin(0.004289882*x0 - 1.5390939)) and would like to replace all numbers with a, b, c etc. ideally in a batch type of way.
The goal is to then apply trig identities to simplify the expression.
I'm not sure if there is already such a function. If there is not, it's quite easy to build one. For example:
import string
def num2symbols(expr):
# wild symbol to select all numbers
w = Wild("w", properties=[lambda t: isinstance(t, Number)])
# extract the numbers from the expression
n = expr.find(w)
# get a lowercase alphabet
alphabet = list(string.ascii_lowercase)
# create a symbol for each number
s = symbols(" ".join(alphabet[:len(n)]))
# create a dictionary mapping a number to a symbol
d = {k: v for k, v in zip(n, s)}
return d, expr.subs(d)
x0 = symbols("x0")
expr = -0.5967695*sin(0.15280747*x0 + 0.89256966) + 0.5967695*sin(sin(0.004289882*x0 - 1.5390939))
d, new_expr = num2symbols(expr)
print(new_expr)
# out: b*sin(c + d*x0) - b*sin(sin(a + f*x0))
print(d):
# {-1.53909390000000: a, -0.596769500000000: b, 0.892569660000000: c, 0.152807470000000: d, 0.596769500000000: e, 0.00428988200000000: f}
I feel like dict.setdefault was made for this purpose in Python :-)
>>> c = numbered_symbols('c',cls=Dummy)
>>> d = {}
>>> econ = expr.replace(lambda x:x.is_Float, lambda x: sign(x)*d.setdefault(abs(x),next(c)))
>>> undo = {v:k for k,v in d.items()}
Do what you want with econ and when done (after saving results to econ)
>>> econ.xreplace(undo) == expr
True
(But if you change econ the exact equivalence may no longer hold.) This uses abs to store symbols so if the expression has constants that differ by a sign they will appear in econ with +/-ci instead of ci and cj.

Is there a non-hack way to print continued fractions in SymPy with integers without evaluation?

I would like to see continued fractions with integers displayed in that form with SymPy, but I cannot seem to make SymPy comply. I found this Stack Overflow question and answer very useful (see farther below), but cannot reach my target goal here:
This is the continued fraction expansion of $\frac{13}{5}$. A common notation for this expansion is to give only the boxed terms as does SymPy below, i.e., $[2,1,1,2]$ from the SymPy continued_fraction_iterator:
Rat_13_5 = list(continued_fraction_iterator(Rational(13, 5)))
print( Rat_13_5 )
Rat_13_5 = list(continued_fraction_iterator(Rational(13, 5)))
( Rat_13_5 )
print( Rat_13_5 )
With output [2, 1, 1, 2].
Pg 37 of the Sympy manual release 1.5 Dec 9, 2019 gives a code snippet to print such an expanded fraction list:
def list_to_frac(l):
expr = Integer(0)
for i in reversed(l[1:]):
expr += i
expr = 1/expr
return l[0] + expr
If you invoke list_to_frac with the Rat_13_5 continued fraction expansion list, SymPy takes off and evaluates it:
print( list_to_frac( Rat_13_5 ) )
with output 13/5
If you use a list of symbols instead, then list_to_frac prints the desired continued fraction, e.g.,
n1, n2, n3, n4, n5, n6, n7, n8, n9 = symbols('n1:10')
cont_frac_list = [n2, n1, n1, n2]
contfrac12201015 = list_to_frac( [n2,n1,n1,n2] )
contfrac122010154
Which produces the desired (I am working in a JupyterLab environment so am actually obtaining typset LaTeX output throughout):
n2 + 1/(n1 + 1/(n1 + 1/n2))
I rewrote list_to_frac to use the UnevaluatedExpr facility presented by Francesco in the StackOverflow question I cited earlier:
def list_to_frac_noEval(l):
expr = Integer(0)
for i in reversed(l[1:]):
expr = UnevaluatedExpr(expr + i)
expr = UnevaluatedExpr( 1/expr )
return l[0] + expr
Invoking list_to_frac_noEval on the $\frac{13}{5}$ expansion list:
list_to_frac_noEval( [2,1,1,2] )
I obtain output
2 + (1 + (1 + 2**(-1))**(-1))**(-1)
Some folks use that notation (so I wanted to share list_to_frac_noEval in any case, that being superior to ending up with an evaluated single rational if you want to see the continued fraction), for example Roger Penrose in section $\unicode{x00A7}3.2$ of The Road to Reality (2004), but I still find it annoying that I cannot obtain the explicit continued fraction format when using integers instead of symbols.
I experimented with substituting in integers for symbols with evaluate=False, using both the subs method and the Subs function, looked at various combinations of sympify and srepr and parse_expr with evaluate=False, , but cannot persuade SymPy 1.4 to print the explicit fraction form that I obtain with list_to_frac operating on symbol arguments. Is there a way to accomplish this short of modifying SymPy code or special casing a particular set of numbers?
You can construct the expression explicitly passing evaluate=False to each part of the expression tree:
def list_to_frac(l):
expr = Integer(0)
for i in reversed(l[1:]):
expr = Add(i, expr, evaluate=False)
expr = Pow(expr, -1, evaluate=False)
return Add(l[0], expr, evaluate=False)
That gives:
In [2]: nums = list(continued_fraction_iterator(Rational(13, 5)))
In [3]: nums
Out[3]: [2, 1, 1, 2]
In [4]: list_to_frac(nums)
Out[4]:
1
───────────── + 2
1
───────── + 1
1
───── + 1
0 + 2
It looks like it's the wrong way around but that's just the way the printing works with default settings:
In [5]: init_printing(order='old')
In [6]: list_to_frac(nums)
Out[6]:
1
2 + ─────────────
1
1 + ─────────
1
1 + ─────
0 + 2
You can trigger evaluation with doit:
In [7]: _.doit()
Out[7]: 13/5

Sympy - Simplify expression within domain

Can Sympy automatically simplify an expression that includes terms like this one:
cos(x)/(cos(x)**2)**(1/2)
which can be simplified to 1 in the domain that I am interested in 0 <= x <= pi/2 ?
(Examples of other terms that could be simplified in that domain: acos(cos(x)); sqrt(sin(x)**2); sqrt(cos(2*x) + 1); etc.)
If you know the functions that are in your expression (such as sin, cos and tan), you can do the following according to this stack overflow question:
from sympy import *
x = symbols("x", positive=True)
ex = cos(x)/(cos(x)**2)**(S(1)/2)
ex = refine(ex, Q.positive(sin(x)))
ex = refine(ex, Q.positive(cos(x)))
ex = refine(ex, Q.positive(tan(x)))
print(ex)
Note that Q.positive(x*(pi/2-x)) did not help in the process of simplification for trig functions even though this is exactly what you want in general.
But what if you might have crazy functions like polygamma? The following works for some arbitrary choices for ex according to my understanding.
It wouldn't be a problem if the expression was already generated before by SymPy, but if you are inputting the expression manually, I suggest using S(1)/2 or Rational(1, 2) to describe one half.
from sympy import *
# define everything as it would have come from previous code
# also define another variable y to be positive
x, y = symbols("x y", positive=True)
ex = cos(x)/(cos(x)**2)**(S(1)/2)
# If you can, always try to use S(1) or Rational(1, 2)
# if you are defining fractions.
# If it's already a pre-calculated variable in sympy,
# it will already understand it as a half, and you
# wouldn't have any problems.
# ex = cos(x)/(cos(x)**2)**(S(1)/2)
# if x = arctan(y) and both are positive,
# then we have implicitly that 0 < x < pi/2
ex = simplify(ex.replace(x, atan(y)))
# revert back to old variable x if x is still present
ex = simplify(ex.replace(y, tan(x)))
print(ex)
This trick can also be used to define other ranges. For example, if you wanted 1 < x, then you could have x = exp(y) where y = Symbol("y", positive=True).
I think subs() will also work instead of replace() but I just like to be forceful with substitutions, since SymPy can sometimes ignore the subs() command for some variable types like lists and stuff.
You can substitute for a symbol that has the assumptions you want:
In [27]: e = cos(x)/(cos(x)**2)**(S(1)/2) + cos(x)
In [28]: e
Out[28]:
cos(x)
cos(x) + ────────────
_________
╱ 2
╲╱ cos (x)
In [29]: cosx = Dummy('cosx', positive=True)
In [30]: e.subs(cos(x), cosx).subs(cosx, cos(x))
Out[30]: cos(x) + 1

SymPy: unable to simplify rather simple expression

I have an expression (expr, see below) that I am unable to simplify in SymPy. For real and positive x, expr is equivalent to x**3 + 2*x, but simplify and refine do not simplify the expression at all. (Mathematica does the simplication without any effort).
How to simplify this expression with SymPy?
from sympy import *
x = var('x')
expr = 16*x**3/(-x**2 + sqrt(8*x**2 + (x**2 - 2)**2) + 2)**2 - 2*2**(S(4)/5)*x*(-x**2 + sqrt(8*x**2 + (x**2 - 2)**2) + 2)**(S(3)/5) + 10*x
expr1 = simplify(expr) # does nothing
expr2 = refine(expr, Q.positive(x)) # does nothing
It can be done!
I rescind my earlier answer. Your expression can be simplified using Sympy. Here's how:
import sympy as sym
x = sym.symbols('x', positive=True)
expr = 16*x**3/(-x**2 + sym.sqrt(8*x**2 + (x**2 - 2)**2) + 2)**2 - 2*2**(sym.S(4)/5)*x*(-x**2 + sym.sqrt(8*x**2 + (x**2 - 2)**2) + 2)**(sym.S(3)/5) + 10*x
sym.simplify(sym.factor(sym.factor(sym.expand(sym.radsimp(expr))), deep=True))
Output:
x*(x**2 + 2)
Basically, I dug through all of the docs on sympy.simplify until I found that magic combination. Also, you have to define x as positive when you create the symbol, just as I did in the code above.
Comment on Mathematica
"Mathematica does the simplication without any effort"
I don't think you should ever underestimate the quantity of time and money that has gone into making the heuristic nightmare that is Mathematica's Simplify seem like it "just works". Sadly, in a lot of ways Sympy is still in it's infancy in comparison. sympy.simplify is one of those ways.

Matching coefficients with sympy

I am attempting to work a problem from a textbook in sympy, but sympy fails to find a solution which appears valid. For interest, it is the design of a PID controller using direct synthesis with a second order plus dead time model.
The whole problem can be reduced to finding K_C, tau_I and tau_D which will make
K_C*(s**2*tau_D*tau_I + s*tau_I + 1)/(s*tau_I)
= (s**2*tau_1*tau_2 + s*tau_1 + s*tau_2 + 1)/(K*s*(-phi + tau_c))
for given tau_1, tau_2, K and phi.
I have tried to solve this by matching coefficients:
import sympy
s, tau_c, tau_1, tau_2, phi, K = sympy.symbols('s, tau_c, tau_1, tau_2, phi, K')
target = (s**2*tau_1*tau_2 + s*tau_1 + s*tau_2 + 1)/(K*s*(-phi + tau_c))
K_C, tau_I, tau_D = sympy.symbols('K_C, tau_I, tau_D', real=True)
PID = K_C*(1 + 1/(tau_I*s) + tau_D*s)
eq = (target - PID).together()
eq *= sympy.denom(eq).simplify()
eq = sympy.poly(eq, s)
sympy.solve(eq.coeffs(), [K_C, tau_I, tau_D])
This returns an empty list. However, the textbook provides the following solution:
booksolution = {K_C: 1/K*(tau_1 + tau_2)/(tau_c - phi),
tau_I: tau_1 + tau_2,a
tau_D: tau_1*tau_2/(tau_1 + tau_2)}
Which appears to satisfy the equations I'm trying to solve:
[c.subs(booksolution).simplify() for c in eq.coeffs()]
returns
[0, 0, 0]
Can I massage this into a form which sympy can solve? What am I doing wong?
Edit: This finds the correct solution, but requires a little too much thought from my side to order the equations:
eqs = eq.coeffs()
solution = {}
solution[K_C] = sympy.solve(eqs[1], K_C)[0]
solution[tau_D] = sympy.solve(eqs[0], tau_D)[0].subs(solution)
solution[tau_I] = sympy.solve(eqs[2], tau_I)[0].subs(solution).simplify()
In SymPy 1.0 (to be released soon) I get this answer
In [25]: sympy.solve(eq.coeffs(), [K_C, tau_I, tau_D])
Out[25]:
⎡ ⎧ -(τ₁ + τ₂) τ₁⋅τ₂ ⎫⎤
⎢{K_C: 0, τ_I: 0}, ⎨K_C: ───────────, τ_D: ───────, τ_I: τ₁ + τ₂⎬⎥
⎣ ⎩ K⋅(φ - τ_c) τ₁ + τ₂ ⎭⎦
which looks like your textbook's solution.