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Gottfried Wrote:Ivars -
Hmm, I've not been in your discussion with Henryk (have my mind elsewhere these days) and I don't know, perhaps I'm missing the point.
What is the point of your question - besides, that we have conjugate solutions? If I recall my above graphs, for instance, then they show obviously conjugacy. And my graph for complex fixpoints for real bases b>e^(1/e)
can be continued for any number of solutions t and u, where imag(u)=some selection +- 2*k*pi (= beta in the graph). (though changing the k-factor only does not lead exactly to the same b, but this should not be seen as a problem). So there may be some problem, that I'm missing when I read your posts?
You can not see what I can not express properly
Did You succeed in explaining why sqrt 2 tetrated might lead to both 2 and 4? Euler seems to have had an idea, and he also bothered with r=e^pi/2 in his article, but I can not read Latin good enough still.
May be what I am trying to say is:
We should define tetration generally with a help of some divergent series Euler style and then investigate all possible analytical developments of these series, including convergent ones in the region of convergence of h(z).
I have a gut feeling I can not get rid of that somewhere the +i and - i difference= ambiquity will pop out in such case clearly. And z=e^pi/2 should be the easiest place to investigate it properly. There has to be not 2 , but 4 values at all k which sometimes overlap, but in some places adding adding pik to i and pik to - i leads to different values.E.g.
ln(sqrt2) gives : ln sgrt2 +- 2 pi k =1/2ln2 +- 2 pi I k
ln(-sqrt 2) gives: ln sqrt 2+-pi k= 1/2ln 2 +- pi I k but k is not 0 as negative logarithms can only be complex, never real.
So totally you have : when k= 0-> 1 value
ln sqrt2=1/2 ln 2
when k=1 -> 4 values
ln sqrt2 = 1/2 ln 2 +- 2pi I -> 2 values, but + 2pi *I and - 2pi*I is the same
ln -sqrt2 = 1/2 ln2 + - pi*I -> 2 values and +pi and - pi which does not coincide with any other values
I have a feeling that tetration is the field where reducing this ambiquity early on and reaching definitions of tetration via convergent series or functions ( like W(z) ) looses important information on the way.
When You see e^i*pi/2 You think about rotation of 90 degrees. When i = h(e^pi/2) then e^h(e^pi/2) * pi/2 is also a rotation by 90 degress but involves infinite operation on real numbers. NO i. It is an identity- You can replace i with h(z) and -i with another branch of h(z) . And depending on the sign of h(z) it will be either rotation anticlockwise, or clockwise.
so h(e^pi/2)^2 = -1 but we clearly know that each h(e^pi/2) which is root of -1 is found via different branch, so they can not be replacable so easily .
May be I am terribly wrong, as I really can not nail the place where it really matters.
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Ivars Wrote:You can not see what I can not express properly
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ln sqrt2=1/2 ln 2
when k=1 -> 4 values
ln sqrt2 = 1/2 ln 2 +- 2pi I -> 2 values, but + 2pi *I and - 2pi*I is the same
ln -sqrt2 = 1/2 ln2 + - pi*I -> 2 values and +pi and - pi which does not coincide with any other values
I have a feeling that tetration is the field where reducing this ambiquity early on and reaching definitions of tetration via convergent series or functions ( like W(z) ) looses important information on the way.
When You see e^i*pi/2 You think about rotation of 90 degrees. When i = h(e^pi/2) then e^h(e^pi/2) * pi/2 is also a rotation by 90 degress but involves infinite operation on real numbers. NO i. It is an identity- You can replace i with h(z) and -i with another branch of h(z) . And depending on the sign of h(z) it will be either rotation anticlockwise, or clockwise.
so h(e^pi/2)^2 = -1 but we clearly know that each h(e^pi/2) which is root of -1 is found via different branch, so they can not be replacable so easily .
May be I am terribly wrong, as I really can not nail the place where it really matters. Hmm, surely there are more possibilities to express a value not only by convergent, but also by divergent series. May be your idea was already covered with my observation, that seemingly the same matrix Bs containing the needed coefficients for tetration can be seen as compsed of different versions of eigen-matrices
Bs = W0 * D0 * W0^-1
= W1 * D1 * W1^-1
etc
where W0, W1, etc are constructed by different powerseries based on the multitude of different fixpoints. So the different solutions you talk about are possibly reflected in the different versions of the eigenmatrices?
I'll read your post again later and try myself to eliminate further misunderstandings, if there is still one.
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11/14/2007, 04:52 PM
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Hej Gottfried,
Gottfried Wrote:Ivars -
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Could there be another symmetrical curve for b=imag(t) ? So that at point 0;0 You will have 2 curves crossing each other?
Then You could take away the left 2 quadrants of the graph totally- I can not understand why they are needed as it seems to me - maybe wrongly- that there beta=-pi/2 also belongs to h(e^pi/2) which can not be true?
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Ivars Wrote:Hej Gottfried,
Could there be another symmetrical curve for b=imag(t) ? So that at point 0;0 You will have 2 curves crossing each other?
Then You could take away the left 2 quadrants of the graph totally- I can not understand why they are needed as it seems to me - maybe wrongly- that there beta=-pi/2 also belongs to h(e^pi/2) which can not be true?
Ivars
Hmm; I don't know absolutely. See my derivations in the article
function; it seems pretty straightforward and I don't think, there are other solutions - but...
t is t=exp(u); so even if we use periodical u (including multiple 2*Pi*I*k) there is only one t according to my considerations. Don't know, whether there are other solutions possible - but if you should see another solution, I'd like to know this.
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Hej Gotfried,
Gottfried Wrote:Hmm; I don't know absolutely. See my derivations in the article
function; it seems pretty straightforward and I don't think, there are other solutions - but...
t is t=exp(u); so even if we use periodical u (including multiple 2*Pi*I*k) there is only one t according to my considerations. Don't know, whether there are other solutions possible - but if you should see another solution, I'd like to know this.
Gottfried
Why not:
Define complex number u Euler style , as
u=a+sqrt(-1)b so u= a+-ib where +i and -i must be used separately but together- they are both in sqrt(-1) always. And stick to it throughout the derivations.
Then red point coordinates will be:
u= 0+-ipi/2
t=0+-i
s=e^pi/2
And that will correspond to h(e^pi/2) having values +i, -i in at least in first 2 branches. So on right quadrants will have 2 curves instead of 1. May be symmetric, may be not- it has to be calculated according to Your methods. On left quadrants I am not sure as I can not really understand what values in left quadrants correspond to. .
and then for complex-> real case
[b]0<beta<pi taken anticlockwise AND 0<beta<-pi taken clockwise[/b]
Alfa, s limits i do not know-may be they change as well in this case?
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Hi Ivars -
Ivars Wrote:Hej Gotfried,
Gottfried Wrote:Hmm; I don't know absolutely. See my derivations in the article
function; it seems pretty straightforward and I don't think, there are other solutions - but...
t is t=exp(u); so even if we use periodical u (including multiple 2*Pi*I*k) there is only one t according to my considerations. Don't know, whether there are other solutions possible - but if you should see another solution, I'd like to know this.
Gottfried
Why not:
Define complex number u Euler style , as
u=a+sqrt(-1)b so u= a+-ib where +i and -i must be used separately but together- they are both in sqrt(-1) always. And stick to it throughout the derivations.
[b]Then red point coordinates will be:
u= 0+-ipi/2 so this describes the curves in the 2'nd and third quadrant: if I use beta or -beta. So this is dealt with.
Quote:t=0+-i
??? t = exp(u) (whatever u) and this is unique, since exp is multiple->unique function (no two values/branches for function-result)
Quote:s=e^pi/2
Yes. Since you have selected one beta (+ or -) you have t and s uniquely determined.
My only problem was, whether possibly there is another way/formula to force the result s being purely real - I don't know, whether my considerations are exhaustive here.
Quote:And that will correspond to h(e^pi/2) having values +i, -i in at least in first 2 branches. So on right quadrants will have 2 curves instead of 1. May be symmetric, may be not- it has to be calculated according to Your methods. On left quadrants I am not sure as I can not really understand what values in left quadrants correspond to. .
Best seems to me, you would compute some examples, show this/plot this and nail down the actual problem. I'm still feeling insure whether I'm getting your caveats correctly.
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11/15/2007, 07:21 AM
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Quote:ln(sqrt2) gives : ln sgrt2 +- 2 pi k =1/2ln2 +- 2 pi I k
ln(-sqrt 2) gives: ln sqrt 2+-pi k= 1/2ln 2 +- pi I k but k is not 0 as negative logarithms can only be complex, never real.
Not to nitpick, but rather than saying k is not 0, you should really specify that k is odd (and inequality with 0 is then already implied). I tend to write it as, e.g., \( \ln\left(\sqrt{2}\right) \pm (2k+1)\pi i \) or ln(sqrt(2)) +- (2k+1)pi I, or if you really need to factor out k and put it at the end of the expression, then ln(sqrt(2)) + pi I +- 2 pi I k
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Hej Gottfried,
I am not trying to show You have done something wrong , I think Your graph and approach is great.
I only want to make sure that reducing complex numbers to one root of sqrt(-1) = i so that a+ib work also in tetration and h(z) without loss of information. There fore I am trying to ask You since I can not do it- I understand You may feel annoyed - > if You feel any interest , of course, to carry the ambiquity of sign of sqrt(-1) through all derivation before getting rid of it.
Gottfried Wrote:t = exp(u) (whatever u) and this is unique, since exp is multiple->unique function (no two values/branches for function-result)
Gottfried
But exp(alpha+I*beta) is not equal to exp (alpha-I*beta)?
so if we consistently keep u=alpha+-i beta as definition of u as complex number, than t has 2 values = e^alpha*e^(+- I*beta).
If You continue from that and find that this other value t=e^alpha*e^-I*beta does not add any new information about the whole thing, than let it be.
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hej jaydfox,
Thanks. I know how annoying such elementary things can be.
jaydfox Wrote:\( \ln\left(\sqrt{2}\right) \pm (2k+1)\pi i \) or ln(sqrt(2)) +- (2k+1)pi I, or if you really need to factor out k and put it at the end of the expression, then ln(sqrt(2)) + pi I +- 2 pi I k
But I would end up with ln(sqrt(2)) +- pi I +- 2pi I k?
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Ivars Wrote:Hej Gottfried,
I am not trying to show You have done something wrong , I think Your graph and approach is great.
I only want to make sure that reducing complex numbers to one root of sqrt(-1) = i so that a+ib work also in tetration and h(z) without loss of information. There fore I am trying to ask You since I can not do it- I understand You may feel annoyed - > if You feel any interest , of course, to carry the ambiquity of sign of sqrt(-1) through all derivation before getting rid of it.
No, there is no problem wth it. But without a workout with an example I seem to have persistent problems to get your problem right.
Quote:But exp(alpha+I*beta) is not equal to exp (alpha-I*beta)?
so if we consistently keep u=alpha+-i beta as definition of u as complex number, than t has 2 values = e^alpha*e^(+- I*beta).
If You continue from that and find that this other value t=e^alpha*e^-I*beta does not add any new information about the whole thing, than let it be.
Ivars
Well in this case, for the result s being real only, alpha is a unique function of beta. If you take +beta you need one alpha, and if you take -beta, you need another alpha adapted from this; in this case, the two alphas are even equal (the graph looks symmetrical w.r.t. y-axis).
So no ambiguity is here, just use the formula of my paper, by which the alpha is determined by beta to get a real s.
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