Subject: Stripping out coefficients of Fourier series
From: Dan Hatton
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:52:32 +0100 (BST)
Dear All,
Imagine I have some three-dimensional Fourier series like
series : (complicated_expression_1)*cos(3*z)*cos(3*x)*cos(y)
+(complicated_expression_2)*cos(2*z)*cos(2*x)*cos(2*y) ;
(only with rather more than two Fourier components).
complicated_expression_1 and complicated_expression_2 are free of x,
y, and z.
I know the Fourier series is zero for all (x,y,z) - from which I infer
that complicated_expression_1 and complicated_expression_2 are zero
individually. So I'd like to do some algebraic manipulations with the
equations
complicated_expression_1 = 0 ;
complicated_expression_2 = 0 ;
but first I have to be able to extract complicated_expression_1 and
complicated_expression_2 from series. Is there a Maxima function I
can apply to series to achieve this, please?
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Thanks,
Dan