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#28916 closed enhancement
MixedFormAlgebra - More Flexible Coercions — at Version 13
Reported by: | gh-DeRhamSource | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | sage-9.1 |
Component: | geometry | Keywords: | manifolds, mixed-forms |
Cc: | egourgoulhon, tscrim | Merged in: | |
Authors: | Michael Jung | Reviewers: | |
Report Upstream: | N/A | Work issues: | |
Branch: | u/gh-DeRhamSource/mixedformalgebra___more_flexible_coercions (Commits, GitHub, GitLab) | Commit: | ee4ad9352b5ac563b7ea1efde674d423ab8cc9b8 |
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Description (last modified by )
This makes the coercion model of mixed forms more robust against modifications regarding differential forms. For instance: As soon as all differential forms of another mixed form have a coerce map, the mixed form has one too. The same now holds for any algebraic element which is coercible into a single differential form.
At this stage, the method degree
is used and special cases are handled separately. But notice that not all coercible objects provide this method (symbolic ring). Or conversely, having this method doesn't mean being coercible into a differential form. Hence this invocation is now entirely avoided.
In particular we have:
sage: M = Manifold(2, 'M') sage: Omega = M.mixed_form_algebra() sage: Omega1 = M.diff_form_module(1) sage: T01 = M.tensor_field_module((0,1)) sage: Omega1.has_coerce_map_from(T01) True
But at this stage:
sage: Omega.has_coerce_map_from(T01) False
With this ticket:
sage: Omega.has_coerce_map_from(T01) True
Change History (13)
comment:1 Changed 2 years ago by
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comment:4 Changed 2 years ago by
I spared the try...except
block now completely. I think this is a negligible loss of computation time. Also this is more robust and works everytime.
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comment:7 Changed 2 years ago by
Do you have some examples that demonstrates that this change now covers something that it didn't (correctly) do before? If so, please add them to the documentation, but if not, can you give a more detailed explanation as to why you think this is better?
comment:8 Changed 2 years ago by
Fair enough. I'm not sure this change covers even more at this stage.
The only improvement so far: There might be objects with a method degree
which are not coercible into differential forms. Or conversely there are coercible objects without having a degree method (like elements of the symbolic ring). So I avoid invoking degree
completely.
Assume in a future version there come more objects not having a degree
method but are coercible into differential forms (I admit, I have no idea what else it could be). Nevertheless, these cases have to be handled separately now. But with this changes, all potential coercions are covered.
Was that clearer? What do you think about it? And how could I improve my description?
By the way: Merry christmas retrospectively. :)
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comment:12 Changed 2 years ago by
Yes, that is more clear, thank you. So can you please add such an example that now coerces that previously did not?
This makes the coercion model of mixed forms more robust against modifications regarding differential forms. For instance: As soon as differential forms of every degree have coerce maps, the mixed form has one too.
New commits:
Trac 28916: Flexible coercion of mixed forms