Mirror symmetry and realpart/imagpart of functions

On 2/1/09, Dieter Kaiser <drdieterkaiser at web.de> wrote:

>  So what do you think. Should we extend Maxima to handle the
>  realpart/imagpart of functions with mirror symmetry more correctly.

OK by me. Thanks for working on this problem.

I hope at some point we will be able to state in the
documentation the identities which are known for each function.

>  If the function has in addition reflection symmetry and this is implemented too
>  we can get further simplifications.
>
>  With this extension we get more simple expressions for the abs and the carg
>  functions too, because the realpart/imagpart are needed.

Terrific, please go ahead.

best

Robert Dodier