#30362 closed enhancement (fixed)
Add symplectic structures
Reported by: | gh-tobiasdiez | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | sage-9.6 |
Component: | manifolds | Keywords: | |
Cc: | tscrim, nthiery, gh-mjungmath, egourgoulhon, mkoeppe | Merged in: | |
Authors: | Tobias Diez | Reviewers: | Eric Gourgoulhon, Michael Jung, Matthias Koeppe, Travis Scrimshaw |
Report Upstream: | N/A | Work issues: | |
Branch: | b78d8a2 (Commits, GitHub, GitLab) | Commit: | |
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Description (last modified by )
This ticket implements the basics of symplectic structures, like Poisson brackets and Hamiltonian vector fields.
TODO (as follow-up tickets):
- Extract general coordinate stuff from
EuclideanSpace
to new classVectorSpace
, and letSymplecticVectorSpace
derive fromVectorSpace
Change History (182)
comment:1 follow-up: ↓ 4 Changed 22 months ago by
comment:2 follow-up: ↓ 7 Changed 22 months ago by
I swiftly overviewed your code. It's a nice addition! However, I have some comments:
- I think, this is redundant:
PseudoRiemannianMetric._del_derived(self) + self._del_inverse() def _del_inverse(self):
The method
_del_inverse
is already invoked inPseudoRiemannianMetric._del_derived
.
- I am not sure that
sharp
andflat
are proper names for lowering/raising the index w.r.t. a symplectic structure, I presume they are reserved for metrics only.raise
andlower
sounds more appropriate to me.
- In my opinion this change is not necessary either:
""" - def __init__(self, n, name, field, structure, base_manifold=None, + def __init__(self, n, name, field='real', structure=RealDifferentialStructure(), base_manifold=None, diff_degree=infinity, latex_name=None, start_index=0, category=None, unique_tag=None):
The default input is already managed by the factory method
Manifolds
. And in my opinion, it should stay there for maintenance reasons.
- It would be good to add a new category for symplectic manifolds and also a new structure in
manifolds/structure.py
. Besides, I am not sure, is it possible to combine structures? Symplectic and pseudo-Riemannian structures certainly do not exclude each other. If not, I think this is something we should attack at some point. The more structures we allow, the more flexible the framework has to be.
- I still think that starting with Poisson manifolds is a more reasonable approach. Anyway, someone always has to have the time to do it.
comment:3 Changed 21 months ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-9.2 to sage-9.3
comment:4 in reply to: ↑ 1 ; follow-up: ↓ 5 Changed 21 months ago by
Symplectic structures are certainly a nice addition to Sage! Thank you for contributing to this.
I gave a look to the code, but I have to say that in the current state, it is hardly readable for me, because the docstrings are simply copied from other files, without any cleaning nor adaptation of the doctests to the new features introduced here. Can I suggest that you move forward and provide a first version with some minimal documentation and doctests, cleaning out what does not pertain to this ticket.
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
For me
SymplecticFormParal
is only a implementation detail, so I don't actually want to expose it to the user. Any ideas? (probably needs some modifications in the tensorfield.restrict method).The use of
...Paral
is of course necessary since structures on manifolds are "glued together" via parallelizable parts. I agree in so far that there is no explicit need to expose it to the user since this is all managed via methods inmanifold.py
, that's right. Howver, in my opinion, there's also nothing wrong about it. Since this is a general problem not only restricted to symplectic forms, I suggest you open another ticket if you want to discuss it.
SymplecticFormParal
is not exposed to the user, since the interface should not be via the class names but rather via a method M.symplectic_form()
of the manifold M
, which returns a SymplecticFormParal
if M
is parallelizable and a SymplecticForm
otherwise.
Besides, I agree with Michael's remarks in comment:2.
comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 4 Changed 21 months ago by
Replying to egourgoulhon:
Can I suggest that you move forward and provide a first version with some minimal documentation and doctests, cleaning out what does not pertain to this ticket.
+1
comment:6 Changed 21 months ago by
Thanks for the feedback. I'll cleanup and improve the code accordingly. I might need a couple of weeks for this however as I'm currently quite busy.
comment:7 in reply to: ↑ 2 ; follow-ups: ↓ 9 ↓ 11 ↓ 77 Changed 18 months ago by
Thanks for the initial reviews!
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
I swiftly overviewed your code. It's a nice addition! However, I have some comments:
- I think, this is redundant:
PseudoRiemannianMetric._del_derived(self) + self._del_inverse() def _del_inverse(self):
The method
_del_inverse
is already invoked inPseudoRiemannianMetric._del_derived
.
Agreed! Not sure why I added it in the first place, but I've now reverted this change.
- I am not sure that
sharp
andflat
are proper names for lowering/raising the index w.r.t. a symplectic structure, I presume they are reserved for metrics only.raise
andlower
sounds more appropriate to me.
The terminology sharp and flat (as well as musical isomorphisms) is standard in symplectic geometry, too. See for example Abraham Marsden Foundations of Mechanics.
- In my opinion this change is not necessary either:
""" - def __init__(self, n, name, field, structure, base_manifold=None, + def __init__(self, n, name, field='real', structure=RealDifferentialStructure(), base_manifold=None, diff_degree=infinity, latex_name=None, start_index=0, category=None, unique_tag=None):The default input is already managed by the factory method
Manifolds
. And in my opinion, it should stay there for maintenance reasons.
I think, it's strange if the constructor requires more data than actually is required. Although that might be a matter of taste, but I find M = TopologicalManifold(2, 'M')
more readable than M = Manifold(2, 'M', structure='topological')
.
- It would be good to add a new category for symplectic manifolds and also a new structure in
manifolds/structure.py
. Besides, I am not sure, is it possible to combine structures? Symplectic and pseudo-Riemannian structures certainly do not exclude each other. If not, I think this is something we should attack at some point. The more structures we allow, the more flexible the framework has to be.
Agreed! But I would like to leave the categorical questions to a follow-up ticket!
- I still think that starting with Poisson manifolds is a more reasonable approach. Anyway, someone always has to have the time to do it.
I'm working on it.
comment:8 Changed 18 months ago by
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comment:9 in reply to: ↑ 7 ; follow-up: ↓ 98 Changed 18 months ago by
- I am not sure that
sharp
andflat
are proper names for lowering/raising the index w.r.t. a symplectic structure, I presume they are reserved for metrics only.raise
andlower
sounds more appropriate to me.The terminology sharp and flat (as well as musical isomorphisms) is standard in symplectic geometry, too. See for example Abraham Marsden Foundations of Mechanics.
You have a page? I only find the terminology 'lowering' and 'raising'.
comment:10 Changed 18 months ago by
In the second edition, its definition 3.2.1 (p. 174, chapter about symplectic geometry). They don't write "sharp" or "flat" as words, but use the musical symbols.
comment:11 in reply to: ↑ 7 Changed 18 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
Although that might be a matter of taste, but I find
M = TopologicalManifold(2, 'M')
more readable thanM = Manifold(2, 'M', structure='topological')
.
I agree, but the reason for using the function Manifold
instead of a direct call to a specific class, like TopologicalManifold
, is to not clutter Sage's global namespace, which is already very large. Likewise, at the user level, one has to use Manifold(..., structure='symplectic')
instead of SymplecticManifold(...)
.
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comment:13 follow-up: ↓ 14 Changed 18 months ago by
Ok, makes sense!
I've continued working on it, introduced Poisson structures, wrote most of the documentation and introduced a few tests. It's not yet finished, but if you have a spare minute I would like to get feedback.
A few questions:
- I get the following error message. What's the origin, and what do I have to do to make it work?
src/sage/manifolds/differentiable/symplectic_form.py:973: in poisson if frame not in self._poisson._components: sage/structure/element.pyx:493: in sage.structure.element.Element.__getattr__ ??? sage/structure/element.pyx:506: in sage.structure.element.Element.getattr_from_category ??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > ??? E AttributeError: 'SymplecticVectorSpace_with_category' object has no attribute '__custom_name'
- I'm still somewhat confused by the subclasses that handle the structure on a parallelizable manifold. For example, in the symplectic form class I create the Poisson tensor, give it a name etc.
poisson_name = f'poisson_{self._name}' poisson_latex_name = f'{self._latex_name}^{{-1}}' self._poisson = PoissonTensorField(self._vmodule, poisson_name, poisson_latex_name)
How do I make sure that it derives from TensorFieldParal
if the manifold is parallelizable? I can of course put the same code in SymplecticFormParal
and replace PoissonTensorField
by PoissonTensorFieldParal
but this appears to be somewhat subopmimal.
Moreover, do I have to copy-paste the documentation from the parent class, or what is the convention?
- How do I obtain a general function on a manifold? On a vector space M, I can do something like
q, p = M.cartesian_coordinates()[:] f = M.scalar_field(function('f')(q,p), name='f')
but what would be the version on a sphere (in such a way that the code works for M being a vector space and a sphere)?
- Since the hodge star operator makes sense also with respect to a symplectic form, I would propose to move the current method from
Metric
toDifferentialForm
:DifferentialForm.hodge_star(Metric|SymplecticForm)
(with an alias inMetric
andSymplecticForm
). Opinions?
- What is the best way to test if two differential forms are equal (including / except of their name)?
Thanks!
comment:14 in reply to: ↑ 13 ; follow-up: ↓ 16 Changed 18 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
- I'm still somewhat confused by the subclasses that handle the structure on a parallelizable manifold. For example, in the symplectic form class I create the Poisson tensor, give it a name etc.
poisson_name = f'poisson_{self._name}' poisson_latex_name = f'{self._latex_name}^{{-1}}' self._poisson = PoissonTensorField(self._vmodule, poisson_name, poisson_latex_name)How do I make sure that it derives from
TensorFieldParal
if the manifold is parallelizable?
You should construct the Poisson tensor from the module of vector fields on the manifold, not by a direct call to PoissonTensorField
, see the example of DifferentiableManifold.metric()
in src/sage/manifods/differentiable/manifold.py
.
Moreover, do I have to copy-paste the documentation from the parent class, or what is the convention?
I don't understand the question, sorry. Could you rephrase it?
- How do I obtain a general function on a manifold? On a vector space M, I can do something like
q, p = M.cartesian_coordinates()[:] f = M.scalar_field(function('f')(q,p), name='f')but what would be the version on a sphere (in such a way that the code works for M being a vector space and a sphere)?
The symbolic functions created by function(...)
are functions of coordinates on a given chart; so to construct a generic function on a manifold, you have to pass a dictionary with as many charts as necessary to cover the manifold:
f = M.scalar_field({X1: function('f_1')(q1, p1), X2: function('f_2')(q2, p2),...})
where X1
is the chart with coordinates (q1, p1)
, etc.
- Since the hodge star operator makes sense also with respect to a symplectic form, I would propose to move the current method from
Metric
toDifferentialForm
:DifferentialForm.hodge_star(Metric|SymplecticForm)
(with an alias inMetric
andSymplecticForm
). Opinions?
The Hodge star is already in DifferentialForm
: it is called hodge_dual()
there and its code
is simply return metric.hodge_star(self)
.
- What is the best way to test if two differential forms are equal (including / except of their name)?
I would say simply a == b
.
This is actually computing a - b
(in an efficient way, using the full antisymmetry of a
and b
's components) and tests whether the result is zero.
A question from my side: why is this ticket depending on #30901 and #30748 ? In the ticket description you write Please ignore the dependencies, these are just there so that I can work locally on my PC. This looks somewhat odd...
Maybe this is related, but the ticket branch contains the following modified files:
-rw-r--r-- .gitignore 9 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/all.py 6 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/all_cmdline.py 1 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/env.py 76 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/libs/gap/util.pyx 1 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/libs/singular/singular.pyx 11 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/misc/lazy_import.pyx 69 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/misc/startup_guard.py 25 -rw-r--r-- src/test.py 64
Do they really pertain to this ticket?
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comment:16 in reply to: ↑ 14 ; follow-up: ↓ 17 Changed 18 months ago by
- Cc mkoeppe added
Replying to egourgoulhon:
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
- I'm still somewhat confused by the subclasses that handle the structure on a parallelizable manifold. For example, in the symplectic form class I create the Poisson tensor, give it a name etc.
poisson_name = f'poisson_{self._name}' poisson_latex_name = f'{self._latex_name}^{{-1}}' self._poisson = PoissonTensorField(self._vmodule, poisson_name, poisson_latex_name)How do I make sure that it derives from
TensorFieldParal
if the manifold is parallelizable?You should construct the Poisson tensor from the module of vector fields on the manifold, not by a direct call to
PoissonTensorField
, see the example ofDifferentiableManifold.metric()
insrc/sage/manifods/differentiable/manifold.py
.
Ok, thanks! That makes sense indeed and worked.
Moreover, do I have to copy-paste the documentation from the parent class, or what is the convention?
I don't understand the question, sorry. Could you rephrase it?
If I implement a method in say PoissonTensorFieldParal
that overrides a method in PoissonTensorField
, do I have to add documentation/tests/examples to the method in PoissonTensorFieldParal?` (given that the signature of the method is exactly the same)?
I think sphinx normally copies the documentation given in the parent class.
- How do I obtain a general function on a manifold? On a vector space M, I can do something like
q, p = M.cartesian_coordinates()[:] f = M.scalar_field(function('f')(q,p), name='f')but what would be the version on a sphere (in such a way that the code works for M being a vector space and a sphere)?
The symbolic functions created by
function(...)
are functions of coordinates on a given chart; so to construct a generic function on a manifold, you have to pass a dictionary with as many charts as necessary to cover the manifold:f = M.scalar_field({X1: function('f_1')(q1, p1), X2: function('f_2')(q2, p2),...})where
X1
is the chart with coordinates(q1, p1)
, etc.
That worked! Merci!
- Since the hodge star operator makes sense also with respect to a symplectic form, I would propose to move the current method from
Metric
toDifferentialForm
:DifferentialForm.hodge_star(Metric|SymplecticForm)
(with an alias inMetric
andSymplecticForm
). Opinions?The Hodge star is already in
DifferentialForm
: it is calledhodge_dual()
there and its code is simplyreturn metric.hodge_star(self)
.
- What is the best way to test if two differential forms are equal (including / except of their name)?
I would say simply
a == b
. This is actually computinga - b
(in an efficient way, using the full antisymmetry ofa
andb
's components) and tests whether the result is zero.
That worked as well!
A question from my side: why is this ticket depending on #30901 and #30748 ? In the ticket description you write Please ignore the dependencies, these are just there so that I can work locally on my PC. This looks somewhat odd...
Maybe this is related, but the ticket branch contains the following modified files:
-rw-r--r-- .gitignore 9 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/all.py 6 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/all_cmdline.py 1 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/env.py 76 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/libs/gap/util.pyx 1 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/libs/singular/singular.pyx 11 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/misc/lazy_import.pyx 69 -rw-r--r-- src/sage/misc/startup_guard.py 25 -rw-r--r-- src/test.py 64Do they really pertain to this ticket?
Sorry for these (unnessary) changes. The only way I currently have to work on sage is with the virtual environment created in #30371. The compiled cython however only works correctly if the changes of #30901 and #30748 are included. Thus, until these packages are merged, I have to sadly include them as dependencies on all packages I develop...maybe you or Matthias have a better idea for a workaround.
Now all tests are passing (not sure about the doctests), and the only thing left is to change the documentation a bit.
New commits:
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comment:17 in reply to: ↑ 16 Changed 18 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
A question from my side: why is this ticket depending on #30901 and #30748 ? In the ticket description you write Please ignore the dependencies, these are just there so that I can work locally on my PC. This looks somewhat odd...
Indeed, this is not the way to do this.
Sorry for these (unnessary) changes. The only way I currently have to work on sage is with the virtual environment created in #30371. [...]maybe you or Matthias have a better idea for a workaround.
I would suggest to create a clean branch starting from the latest beta and to push that to the ticket only. Use git cherry-pick
to get the commits from your branch (with the dependencies that you say you need for running Sage) onto the clean branch. Push the clean branch to the ticket.
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So, I think, I'm mostly finished with the implementation. Some of the doctests may still fail and this will be a bit of a tedious procedure since sage -t
doesn't work for me locally (need to investigate). But it's definitely in a state where I would appreciate feedback!
comment:28 Changed 17 months ago by
Thank you for your work on this. I will let someone who is more invested in the manifold code give more feedback about the overall implementation and structure. I will focus here on the more technical aspects.
From the patchbot, you have at least one infinite recursion to take care of:
********************************************************************** File "src/sage/manifolds/differentiable/vectorfield.py", line 1024, in sage.manifolds.differentiable.vectorfield.VectorField.curl Failed example: curl(v) == s Exception raised: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/sagemath/sage-9.1/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sage/doctest/forker.py", line 714, in _run self.compile_and_execute(example, compiler, test.globs) File "/home/sagemath/sage-9.1/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sage/doctest/forker.py", line 1133, in compile_and_execute exec(compiled, globs) File "<doctest sage.manifolds.differentiable.vectorfield.VectorField.curl[6]>", line 1, in <module> curl(v) == s File "/home/sagemath/sage-9.1/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sage/manifolds/operators.py", line 239, in curl return vector.curl() File "/home/sagemath/sage-9.1/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sage/manifolds/differentiable/vectorfield.py", line 1052, in curl resu = der.hodge_dual(metric).up(metric) File "/home/sagemath/sage-9.1/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sage/manifolds/differentiable/diff_form.py", line 1568, in hodge_dual return metric.hodge_star(self) File "/home/sagemath/sage-9.1/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sage/manifolds/differentiable/metric.py", line 1970, in hodge_star return pform.hodge_dual(self) File "/home/sagemath/sage-9.1/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sage/manifolds/differentiable/diff_form.py", line 1568, in hodge_dual
You should write all of the docstrings and doctests for all of your methods.
There are a number of formatting issues with your docstrings:
-TESTS: +TESTS:: + sage: import pytest sage: pytest.main("symplectic_vector_space_test.py") TODO: add output
def hamiltonian_vector_field(self, function: DiffScalarField) -> VectorField: r""" Return the Hamiltonian vector field `X_f` generated by the given function `f: M \to \RR`. + - It is defined by + The Hamiltonian vector field is defined by + .. MATH:: X_f = - \varpi^\sharp (d f), where `\varpi^\sharp: T^* M \to TM` is given by `\beta(\varpi^\sharp(\alpha)) = \varpi(\alpha, \beta)`. INPUT: + - ```function`` -- the function generating the Hamiltonian vector field
- ``coordinates`` -- (default: ``'Cartesian'``) the type of coordinates to be initialized at the Euclidean space creation; allowed values are * ``'Cartesian'`` (canonical coordinates on `\RR^{2n}`) * ``'polar'`` for ``dimension=2`` only (see :meth:`~sage.manifolds.differentiable.examples.euclidean.EuclideanPlane.polar_coordinates`) - ``symbols`` -- the coordinate text symbols and LaTeX symbols, with the same conventions as the argument ``coordinates`` in ...
among others.
I am not sure I agree with using pytest and a test file as opposed to standard docstrings. We are still experimenting with these features.
poisson_tensor.py
is missing the initial file header info and docstring.
I don't see the reason for the TYPE_CHECKING
. There are also other ways to add the type info without importing.
I think this docstring is wrong:
def poisson(self, expansion_symbol: Optional[Expression] = None, order: int = 1) -> TensorFieldParal: r""" Return the inverse metric.
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Thanks for the feedback! I've now implemented your suggestions.
I don't see the reason for the TYPE_CHECKING. There are also other ways to add the type info without importing.
What "other ways" do you mean? These imports are encapsulated by a check for TYPE_CHECKING
, which is false during runtime and is only set to true by static code analyzers. This is needed to prevent circular inputs or imports from half-initialized modules.
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It might be worth mentioning that there was already an attempt in implementing Poisson structures. A first step had been made with #23429. It'd be beneficial to reuse parts of that code instead of writing new one. In particular, the Poisson tensor field, as you call it, is a bi-vectorfield and hence a multivectorfield in the above sense. It would thus make sense if your Poisson tensor inherits from a multivectorfield.
Moreover, I think it's a good idea to split this ticket into two: one for the Poisson structure and another (dependent on the Poisson structure ticket) for the symplectic structure. That makes the debugging and review much easier.
At the moment, I am unfortunately busy with other things. If I have some time, I'll take a closer look.
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And pyflakes is complaining:
src/sage/manifolds/differentiable/examples/symplectic_vector_space_test.py:1:1 'sage.all' imported but unused src/sage/manifolds/differentiable/symplectic_form_test.py:5:1 'sage.all' imported but unused
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comment:37 follow-up: ↓ 38 Changed 17 months ago by
Thanks for the pointer to the multivector fields! I've not been aware of their existence. The poisson tensor now inherits from MultivectorField? instead of TensorField?.
Since the PoissonTensor? class is relatively short, and most changes intertwine Poisson and symplectic things (e.g. the up/down methods) I would like to keep them together.
The sage.all
imports are needed due to half-finished module imports otherwise. I plan to address this in forthcoming tickets.
comment:38 in reply to: ↑ 37 ; follow-up: ↓ 44 Changed 17 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
Since the PoissonTensor? class is relatively short...
Just underlines my argument. ;)
Short code is much easier to review. Besides, since all the symplectic part relies on the Poisson structure, it's good to review that one first.
The sage.all imports are needed due to half-finished module imports otherwise. I plan to address this in forthcoming tickets.
What do you mean?
comment:39 Changed 17 months ago by
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comment:40 Changed 17 months ago by
- Dependencies changed from #31003 to #31003, #30551
Added #30551 dependency because of future.annotations
comment:41 follow-up: ↓ 45 Changed 17 months ago by
What's the story behind the ..._test.py
files? Is it related to #30738?
comment:42 follow-up: ↓ 46 Changed 17 months ago by
I'd say we should drop these features such as typing, pytest etc. in this ticket for now, otherwise this ticket will stay on hold as long as #30738, #30551, #31003, #29775 etc. and all their follow ups have not been settled.
Taking a look at the discussions, that could take a while, whereas this ticket seems in principle to be ready for review.
comment:43 Changed 17 months ago by
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comment:44 in reply to: ↑ 38 ; follow-up: ↓ 48 Changed 17 months ago by
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
The sage.all imports are needed due to half-finished module imports otherwise. I plan to address this in forthcoming tickets.
What do you mean?
Without these imports I get the following error:
ImportError while importing test module '/mnt/d/Programming/sage/src/sage/manifolds/differentiable/examples/symplectic_vector_space_test.py'. Hint: make sure your test modules/packages have valid Python names. Traceback: /usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py:127: in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) sage/manifolds/differentiable/examples/symplectic_vector_space_test.py:2: in <module> from sage.manifolds.differentiable.symplectic_form import SymplecticForm sage/manifolds/differentiable/symplectic_form.py:34: in <module> from sage.symbolic.expression import Expression sage/symbolic/expression.pyx:310: in init sage.symbolic.expression from .ring import SR sage/symbolic/ring.pyx:1: in init sage.symbolic.ring # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- sage/rings/integer.pyx:1: in init sage.rings.integer r""" sage/rings/rational.pyx:95: in init sage.rings.rational import sage.rings.real_mpfr sage/rings/real_mpfr.pyx:1: in init sage.rings.real_mpfr r""" sage/libs/mpmath/utils.pyx:1: in init sage.libs.mpmath.utils """ sage/rings/complex_mpfr.pyx:1: in init sage.rings.complex_mpfr """ sage/rings/complex_double.pyx:98: in init sage.rings.complex_double from . import complex_mpfr E ImportError: cannot import name complex_mpfr
I tried to make progress towards solving this in #30741, but I cannot really work on this until #30371 is merged.
comment:45 in reply to: ↑ 41 ; follow-up: ↓ 47 Changed 17 months ago by
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
What's the story behind the
..._test.py
files? Is it related to #30738?
It doesn't really rely on #30738, but it uses pytest as well, yes. I'm not a big fan of doctests (as unit tests) and was told that I can always extract them to test files if I prefer that.
comment:46 in reply to: ↑ 42 Changed 17 months ago by
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
I'd say we should drop these features such as typing, pytest etc. in this ticket for now, otherwise this ticket will stay on hold as long as #30738, #30551, #31003, #29775 etc. and all their follow ups have not been settled.
The added typing doesn't have any dependencies (beyond #30551, which will be merged in 9.4). The pytests rely only on #31003, which is hopefully close to be merged. If you prefer, I can extract the pytests to a new ticket although it feels strange to separate the implementation from its tests.
comment:47 in reply to: ↑ 45 ; follow-up: ↓ 49 Changed 17 months ago by
Technically, yes. However, I have the feeling that there are still too many open discussions about using pytest and typing and how to pull it on the current framework. I doubt this ticket will get a positive review until everything is clarified in a broader context like #29775 and #30738. See also comment:28 from Travis.
Anyway, I think that symplectic forms are a great and extremely useful addition to Sage! I am looking forward to have that feature acutally in there. Thanks! :)
comment:48 in reply to: ↑ 44 ; follow-up: ↓ 50 Changed 17 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
I tried to make progress towards solving this in #30741, but I cannot really work on this until #30371 is merged.
It's best to keep workarounds for your experimental setup on your branches and not to push them to tickets. We cannot merge such code and it complicates the discussions in the review. I recommend to use git add -p
and git cherry-pick
to make clean branches.
comment:49 in reply to: ↑ 47 Changed 17 months ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-9.3 to sage-9.4
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
I have the feeling that there are still too many open discussions about using pytest and typing and how to pull it on the current framework.
I agree! Since it's also a lot of work to remove the typing information again, I would say we wait until the development cycle of 9.4 is started, which will resolve #30551 and thereby the other typing tickets. When the time comes, we can reevaluate to split of the pytests to a new ticket. I think this is a resonable time plan anyway, since this is my first bigger contribution to sage and I'm expecting quite some comments concerning the actual implementation, beyond pytest and typing.
comment:50 in reply to: ↑ 48 ; follow-up: ↓ 51 Changed 17 months ago by
Replying to mkoeppe:
It's best to keep workarounds for your experimental setup on your branches and not to push them to tickets. We cannot merge such code and it complicates the discussions in the review. I recommend to use
git add -p
andgit cherry-pick
to make clean branches.
Thanks, but the problem does not come from my editable setup. Pytest simply doesn't import sage.all
before importing the test file, and without such an import other imports such as from sage.symbolic.expression import Expression
do not work (because they implicitly rely on a certain import order that is provided by sage.all).
The reference to #30371 was only because I cannot efficiently work on #30741 without recompiling cython files for which I need #30371.
comment:51 in reply to: ↑ 50 ; follow-up: ↓ 52 Changed 17 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
the problem does not come from my editable setup. Pytest simply doesn't import
sage.all
before importing the test file, and without such an import other imports such asfrom sage.symbolic.expression import Expression
do not work (because they implicitly rely on a certain import order that is provided by sage.all).
Thanks for the clarification. Would it be enough to do the import in the src/conftest.py
file added by #31003?
comment:52 in reply to: ↑ 51 Changed 17 months ago by
Replying to mkoeppe:
Thanks for the clarification. Would it be enough to do the import in the
src/conftest.py
file added by #31003?
Sadly not. The fixture in conftest.py
does load sage.all
, but this is only used when the test are run and not on test discovery. Hence, this only prevents these problems on runtime, but not if the import of the test module already fails. Anyway, for the modularization effort is still desired that one can import and use any sage module without using sage.all
before.
comment:53 Changed 13 months ago by
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c451b31 | src/setup.cfg.m4 (install_requires): Add sage_conf
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6700223 | Merge tag '9.3.rc0' into t/30913/sagelib__add_setup_cfg__install_requires_
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04da2c6 | build/pkgs/ipywidgets: Patch out declaring install-requires of nbformat and jupyterlab-widgets
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815c944 | Merge #30913
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b06731c | Remove Python 3.6 support from metadata and documentation
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comment:54 Changed 13 months ago by
- Dependencies changed from #31003, #30551 to #30551
- Status changed from needs_review to needs_work
Rebased (squashed) on top of updated #30551
comment:55 Changed 13 months ago by
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comment:56 Changed 13 months ago by
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comment:57 Changed 13 months ago by
Rebased, no longer on top of #30551
comment:58 Changed 13 months ago by
- Dependencies #30551 deleted
- Status changed from needs_work to needs_review
Thanks! From my side this is also ready for review!
comment:59 Changed 13 months ago by
- Dependencies set to #30551
The ticket still has to depend on #30551, just testing it you don't need the branch to be on top of it.
comment:60 Changed 13 months ago by
- Status changed from needs_review to needs_work
There are a lot of doctests missing. For example symplectic_form
and poisson_tensor
in differentiable/manifold.py
.
comment:61 Changed 13 months ago by
Thanks for the input. That was one point I was struggling with. The tests are there, just in a different file (e.g. differentiable/poisson_tensor.py) and the methods in manifold.py
is just a convenient helper method. So I was wondering where to add tests, without just copying them all over the place.
comment:62 Changed 13 months ago by
Well, it is not only about testing but also about documenting. Keep in mind that EXAMPLE
blocks occur in the official reference manual and therefore provide a guideline for the user how to use that method adequately aside from testing.
Having the same examples in different places in the documentation isn't necessarily a bad thing. What I usually do is to change some values, dimensions or expressions instead of blindly copy.
comment:63 Changed 13 months ago by
It is also a good idea to add a SEEALSO
block in the poisson_tensor
method linking to differentiable/poisson_tensor.py
.
comment:64 Changed 12 months ago by
Now that Sage 9.4 beta cycle has started, it would be nice to have this ticket make its way into Sage 9.4.
comment:65 Changed 10 months ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-9.4 to sage-9.5
Setting a new milestone for this ticket based on a cursory review.
comment:66 Changed 6 months ago by
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comment:67 Changed 6 months ago by
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comment:68 follow-up: ↓ 69 Changed 6 months ago by
- Dependencies changed from #30551 to #32953
- Status changed from needs_work to needs_review
Please excuse that it took me so long, but I've finally found the time to cleanup the code. The tests should be complete and pass now, except for the pytests for S2 which fail because of #32953. Other than this, this is ready for review.
comment:69 in reply to: ↑ 68 Changed 6 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
Please excuse that it took me so long, but I've finally found the time to cleanup the code. The tests should be complete and pass now, except for the pytests for S2 which fail because of #32953. Other than this, this is ready for review.
Happy to see that symplectic structures make their way to Sage! I'll have a look in the coming days. Meanwhile, the patchbot reveals that the doctest coverage is not complete. You can check it by yourself by running sage -coverage src/sage/manifolds
.
comment:70 Changed 6 months ago by
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comment:71 Changed 6 months ago by
Thanks, I've overlooked that some doctests were missing. Now everything should be in order, except for a few 'false-positves' related to the usage of pytest. For this, I've opened #32975.
comment:72 Changed 6 months ago by
- Dependencies changed from #32953 to #32953, #32975
comment:73 Changed 6 months ago by
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comment:74 Changed 6 months ago by
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comment:75 Changed 6 months ago by
While taking a look to the ticket, I've noticed that the relevant documentation was not generated because there was no entry about symplectic structures in Sage's reference manual. In the above commit, I have therefore added the new file
src/doc/en/reference/manifolds/poisson_manifold.rst
and inserted a reference to it in index.rst
in the same directory. Then building the documentation failed due to various errors, mostly
EXAMPLES:
to be replaced byEXAMPLES::
when immediately followed bysage: ...
.. MATH::
to be followed by a blank line- the bibliographic references
[AM1990]
and[RS2007]
are missing in the biblio file
I fixed those so that the documentation now builds. Note that at the moment (i.e. until #32946 is merged), one cannot use
sage -docbuild reference/manifolds html
to quickly generate the relevant part of the reference manual. One has to use make
instead, which takes much longer time.
For the references [AM1990]
and [RS2007]
, I simply turned them into literal text so that the documentation could build; could you please add them in the bibliographic file
src/doc/en/reference/references/index.rst
comment:76 Changed 6 months ago by
A few comments:
- The file
src/sage/all_cmdline.py
should not be touched by this ticket. - As stated in comment:2, the changes in
TopologicalManifold.__init__
andDifferentiableManifold.__init__
should be reverted. - In the initialization
sage: M.<q, p> = EuclideanSpace(2, "R2", r"\mathbb{R}^2", symbols=r"q:q p:p")
the arguments2
andsymbols
are not necessary. This can be shortened tosage: M.<q,p> = EuclideanSpace(name="R2", latex_name=r"\mathbb{R}^2")
Even better, for the sake of clarity, you could use the default in these doctests, since neither the name nor the LaTeX name of the Euclidean space appears:sage: M.<q,p> = EuclideanSpace()
See here for details. - In the examples, the following two lines
sage: from sage.manifolds.differentiable.poisson_tensor import PoissonTensorField sage: poisson = PoissonTensorField(M, 'varpi')
should be replaced bypoisson = M.poisson_tensor(name='varpi')
since this is the way the end user should use initialize a Poisson tensor. - Similarly
sage: from sage.manifolds.differentiable.symplectic_form import SymplecticForm sage: omega = SymplecticForm(M, 'omega', r'\omega')
should be replaced bysage: omega = M.symplectic_form(name='omega', latex_name=r'\omega')
comment:77 in reply to: ↑ 7 ; follow-up: ↓ 78 Changed 6 months ago by
Something a bit off-topic, but mentioned here a couple of months ago:
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
I think, it's strange if the constructor requires more data than actually is required. Although that might be a matter of taste, but I find
M = TopologicalManifold(2, 'M')
more readable thanM = Manifold(2, 'M', structure='topological')
.
On a second thought (after this time) I tend to agree with Tobias, though I also see the point of cluttering Sage's namespace.
What if we use the namespace manifolds
, i.e. manifolds.TopologicalManifold
, manifolds.SymplecticManifold
, ..., instead? We already have manifolds.Sphere
, manifolds.RealLine
, ..., and it seems quite natural to me adding the above to this namespace, too. This way, we do not clutter the global namespace but maintain the desired convenience. Eric, what do you think?
Of course, this shouldn't be treated in this ticket, rather in a follow-up.
comment:78 in reply to: ↑ 77 Changed 6 months ago by
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
What if we use the namespace
manifolds
, i.e.manifolds.TopologicalManifold
,manifolds.SymplecticManifold
, ..., instead? We already havemanifolds.Sphere
,manifolds.RealLine
, ..., and it seems quite natural to me adding the above to this namespace, too. This way, we do not clutter the global namespace but maintain the desired convenience. Eric, what do you think?
Yes, why not?
Of course, this shouldn't be treated in this ticket, rather in a follow-up.
Certainly.
comment:79 follow-up: ↓ 81 Changed 6 months ago by
Thanks for the feedback. I've incorporated your suggestions and updated the code.
Still have to check for the docs, since building them takes adges...
Concerning
In the examples, the following two lines
sage: from sage.manifolds.differentiable.poisson_tensor import PoissonTensorField? sage: poisson = PoissonTensorField?(M, 'varpi')
should be replaced by
poisson = M.poisson_tensor(name='varpi')
since this is the way the end user should use initialize a Poisson tensor.
I've changed it, but think that it still would be useful to have the examples directly for the constructor. It's similar to what I've mentioned above, but why should M.poisson_tensor
be superior to PoissonTensor(M)
? Sure for a normal sage user the first is more convient, as you don't have to import anything. But if you use sage more as a python library, than the latter is maybe your preferred way.
comment:80 Changed 6 months ago by
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comment:81 in reply to: ↑ 79 ; follow-ups: ↓ 82 ↓ 83 Changed 6 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
Concerning
In the examples, the following two lines
sage: from sage.manifolds.differentiable.poisson_tensor import PoissonTensorField sage: poisson = PoissonTensorField(M, 'varpi')should be replaced by
poisson = M.poisson_tensor(name='varpi')since this is the way the end user should use initialize a Poisson tensor.
I've changed it, but think that it still would be useful to have the examples directly for the constructor. It's similar to what I've mentioned above, but why should
M.poisson_tensor
be superior toPoissonTensor(M)
? Sure for a normal sage user the first is more convient, as you don't have to import anything. But if you use sage more as a python library, than the latter is maybe your preferred way.
It is something that is associated to the manifold, therefore the API should favor the method. (Contrast this to the exterior algebra, which is not associated to its defining base ring.) Plus it means you do not have to care about it being parallelizeable or not. Not only for front-end users because of the lack of import, but we also want people using it as a library to use the method. It also helps avoid a bit circular import hell.
Remove the pytest test and replace them with standard tests. The disassociation with the doctests makes it very easy to miss full coverage (to the point where I have to do a lot of very detailed checking), there are no examples right there in the methods for a future developer to quickly look at, it is a heavier maintenance burden to keep things in sync, and it adds clutter. I also do not want to keep a uniform approach to doctests at this point until there is a large consensus to adopt such a change. This also removes the otherwise unnecessary dependency on #32975.
comment:82 in reply to: ↑ 81 Changed 6 months ago by
Replying to tscrim:
Remove the pytest test and replace them with standard tests. The disassociation with the doctests makes it very easy to miss full coverage (to the point where I have to do a lot of very detailed checking), there are no examples right there in the methods for a future developer to quickly look at, it is a heavier maintenance burden to keep things in sync, and it adds clutter. I also do not want to keep a uniform approach to doctests at this point until there is a large consensus to adopt such a change. This also removes the otherwise unnecessary dependency on #32975.
I fully agree: introducing the pytest framework in Sage does not belong to this ticket. It would be a pity to have to wait for #32975 for having symplectic structures in Sage. Similarly, I don't think #32953 should be a dependency.
comment:83 in reply to: ↑ 81 Changed 6 months ago by
Replying to tscrim:
Remove the pytest test and replace them with standard tests. The disassociation with the doctests makes it very easy to miss full coverage (to the point where I have to do a lot of very detailed checking), there are no examples right there in the methods for a future developer to quickly look at, it is a heavier maintenance burden to keep things in sync, and it adds clutter. I also do not want to keep a uniform approach to doctests at this point until there is a large consensus to adopt such a change. This also removes the otherwise unnecessary dependency on #32975.
+1
Replying to egourgoulhon:
I fully agree: introducing the pytest framework in Sage does not belong to this ticket. It would be a pity to have to wait for #32975 for having symplectic structures in Sage. Similarly, I don't think #32953 should be a dependency.
+1
comment:84 Changed 6 months ago by
- Dependencies #32953, #32975 deleted
Pytest is already an optional package for a long time, and it has been integrated in the usual sage -t
command in #31003. So this ticket here is only using existing infrastructure. Note also that pytest is not essentially used - it only provides consistency and more detailed tests of special cases, every method still has "normal" examples in their documentation. The longterm idea is to make pytest a standard package, see #31110. But for this one needs to collect experience with its usage in sage. For example, as you point out the coverage tools needs improvement to be still useful with pytest. I've opened #32994 to keep track of this. Thanks for the suggestion.
I thought ticket dependencies are a natural element of the sage workflow. Since you collectively don't liked them, I've now added a few doctests instead of using the proposed TEST: pytest
syntax proposed in #32975. Once this ticket is merged one could revert to that syntax as a follow-up. The dependency on #32953 can indeed be removed thanks to the fix by Eric.
comment:85 Changed 6 months ago by
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comment:86 follow-up: ↓ 87 Changed 6 months ago by
Thank you for making the changes.
Dependencies are a natural thing, but they still should be relevant to the ticket at-hand. Imposing a dependency because you want to use a new feature you care about is not a good practice IMO. (I feel it is more akin to hostage diplomacy.) To gain experience in using something, one should do a ticket that changes some part of Sage that is more stable that can be compared (or perhaps one that needs some attention because it is older code/doc).
comment:87 in reply to: ↑ 86 Changed 6 months ago by
Replying to tscrim:
Imposing a dependency because you want to use a new feature you care about is not a good practice IMO. (I feel it is more akin to hostage diplomacy.)
Sorry that it made this impression. It was actually the other way around: while working on this ticket here, I created #32975 to make my life easier...
To gain experience in using something, one should do a ticket that changes some part of Sage that is more stable that can be compared.
That's also done, see for example #30738 which awaits review/feedback.
comment:88 Changed 6 months ago by
- Description modified (diff)
comment:89 follow-up: ↓ 90 Changed 6 months ago by
- Reviewers set to Eric Gourgoulhon, Michael Jung, Travis Scrimshaw
Thanks for the changes. It seems that we are converging ;-)
A few more points:
- The macro
\contr
in the docstring ofhamiltonian_vector_field
is not recognized by LaTeX: this produces a red literal\contr
in the html documentation and breaks the pdf documentation, as you can easily check by runningsage -docbuild reference/manifolds pdf
(this works, no need to wait for #32946, which regards only the html documentation). - The docstring of
SymplecticFormParal
shall not start byTODO
- The unnecessary import
from sage.manifolds.structure import RealDifferentialStructure
should be removed fromdifferentiable/manifold.py
. - The line containing
_dim: int
should be removed frommanifolds/manifold.py
(in other words, the filemanifolds/manifold.py
should not be touched by this ticket) - It seems to me that the files
symplectic_form_test.py
andsymplectic_vector_space_test.py
should be removed from this ticket, until #32975 is settled. They are triggering coverage and puflakes errors and are no used in the current test framework.
comment:90 in reply to: ↑ 89 ; follow-up: ↓ 93 Changed 6 months ago by
Replying to egourgoulhon:
- The macro
\contr
in the docstring ofhamiltonian_vector_field
is not recognized by LaTeX: this produces a red literal\contr
in the html documentation and breaks the pdf documentation, as you can easily check by runningsage -docbuild reference/manifolds pdf
(this works, no need to wait for #32946, which regards only the html documentation).
Should be fixed now. I cannot test this, as building the PDF also doesn't work for me: RuntimeError?: failed to run $MAKE all-pdf in /home/tobias/sage/local/share/doc/sage/latex/en/reference/manifolds
- The docstring of
SymplecticFormParal
shall not start byTODO
Nicely spotted!
- The unnecessary import
from sage.manifolds.structure import RealDifferentialStructure
should be removed fromdifferentiable/manifold.py
.
Done!
- The line containing
_dim: int
should be removed frommanifolds/manifold.py
(in other words, the filemanifolds/manifold.py
should not be touched by this ticket)
It's needed in order to not get typing issues in the new symplectic forms file. I know that there is no check in place (yet?) to verify that all (new) code adheres to typing standards, but I think its good practice to let the typing evolve as one works on the code. Also typing errors are shown as errors for me in VS and as I will be probably the person working on the symplectic code the most in the near future, I would strongly prefer to have such errors as little as possible.
- It seems to me that the files
symplectic_form_test.py
andsymplectic_vector_space_test.py
should be removed from this ticket, until #32975 is settled. They are triggering coverage and puflakes errors and are no used in the current test framework.
They are invoked by ./sage -t
(if pytest is installed in the sage venv) and run without issues (at least for me). The sage.all
imports that pyflakes is complaining about are needed due to various cyclic imports. #30741 started the work to remove these cyclic imports, but more work is needed.
comment:91 Changed 6 months ago by
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comment:92 Changed 6 months ago by
Yet two more:
- the
INPUT
blocks of__init__
methods shall be moved to the main docstring of the class; otherwise, they don't appear in the documentation. Similarly for theEXAMPLES
section. See e.g. what is done indiff_form.py
. Actually, onlyTESTS
should appear in the docstring of__init__
since, as for any private method, its docstring does not appear to the generated documentation. - the docstring of
hodge_star
is still in the stage of a copy/paste from the metric one; it should be adapted to the symplectic form.
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comment:93 in reply to: ↑ 90 Changed 6 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
Replying to egourgoulhon:
- The macro
\contr
in the docstring ofhamiltonian_vector_field
is not recognized by LaTeX: this produces a red literal\contr
in the html documentation and breaks the pdf documentation, as you can easily check by runningsage -docbuild reference/manifolds pdf
(this works, no need to wait for #32946, which regards only the html documentation).Should be fixed now.
Yes it is, thanks.
I cannot test this, as building the PDF also doesn't work for me: RuntimeError?: failed to run $MAKE all-pdf in /home/tobias/sage/local/share/doc/sage/latex/en/reference/manifolds
Strange... It works for me. Don't you have a more precise error message?
- The line containing
_dim: int
should be removed frommanifolds/manifold.py
(in other words, the filemanifolds/manifold.py
should not be touched by this ticket)It's needed in order to not get typing issues in the new symplectic forms file. I know that there is no check in place (yet?) to verify that all (new) code adheres to typing standards, but I think its good practice to let the typing evolve as one works on the code. Also typing errors are shown as errors for me in VS and as I will be probably the person working on the symplectic code the most in the near future, I would strongly prefer to have such errors as little as possible.
OK, very well.
- It seems to me that the files
symplectic_form_test.py
andsymplectic_vector_space_test.py
should be removed from this ticket, until #32975 is settled. They are triggering coverage and puflakes errors and are no used in the current test framework.They are invoked by
./sage -t
(if pytest is installed in the sage venv) and run without issues (at least for me). Thesage.all
imports that pyflakes is complaining about are needed due to various cyclic imports. #30741 started the work to remove these cyclic imports, but more work is needed.
OK.
comment:94 Changed 6 months ago by
Spotted some typos: "Riemaninan", "Poissen", "indicies", "symplecic", "where where", "calculate it's" -> "calculate its"
comment:95 Changed 6 months ago by
- Reviewers changed from Eric Gourgoulhon, Michael Jung, Travis Scrimshaw to Eric Gourgoulhon, Michael Jung, Matthias Koeppe, Travis Scrimshaw
comment:96 Changed 6 months ago by
The documentation of DifferentiableManifold.poisson_tensor
and DifferentiableManifold.symplectic_form
is pretty terse. It should contain an OUTPUT
block with some hyperlink to the class PoissonTensorField
, thereby providing an easy access to the latter, e.g.
OUTPUT: - instance of :class:`~sage.manifolds.differentiable.poisson_tensor.PoissonTensorField`
comment:97 Changed 6 months ago by
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comment:98 in reply to: ↑ 9 Changed 6 months ago by
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
- I am not sure that
sharp
andflat
are proper names for lowering/raising the index w.r.t. a symplectic structure, I presume they are reserved for metrics only.raise
andlower
sounds more appropriate to me.The terminology sharp and flat (as well as musical isomorphisms) is standard in symplectic geometry, too. See for example Abraham Marsden Foundations of Mechanics.
You have a page? I only find the terminology 'lowering' and 'raising'.
I looked at that reference, and page 128 calls the maps "raising" and "lowering". But other sources do use the terminology "the sharp of ..." and "the flat of ..." for the results of these operations. Other things equal, I think for method names one should prefer verbs. So I would be in favor of raise()
and lower()
as well. Just my 2 cents
comment:99 Changed 6 months ago by
(However, raise
is a reserved word.)
comment:100 Changed 6 months ago by
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comment:101 Changed 6 months ago by
The documentation was broken due to some indentation issue in the bullet list of some INPUT
blocks. This is fixed in the above commit. In addition, I've
- corrrected some cut-and-paste typos
- added docstests to
__init__
methods, which had no longer any - changed the doctests of
PoissonTensorField
,SymplecticForm
andVectorFieldModule.poisson_tensor
andVectorFieldModule.symplectic_form
from the Euclidean space to the 2-sphere, since we need here non-parallelizable manifolds (otherwise, the doctest is actually not testing the said method) - added some hyperlink to the Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket
A question: in the definition of a symplectic form given in the docstring of SymplecticForm
, shouldn't one add that \omega
must be closed?
comment:102 Changed 6 months ago by
- Status changed from needs_review to positive_review
It would be nice to have this in Sage 9.5. Does everybody agree with the positive review? The doctest error reported by the patchbot does not belong to this ticket and the remaining coverage and pyflakes issues are kind of spurious since they are due to the pytest files symplectic_form_test.py
and symplectic_vector_space_test.py
(cf. #32975).
comment:103 Changed 6 months ago by
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comment:104 follow-up: ↓ 105 Changed 6 months ago by
Thanks for your additions and the review!
You are right, symplectic forms need to be closed. I've added it to documentation.
comment:105 in reply to: ↑ 104 Changed 6 months ago by
- Status changed from needs_review to positive_review
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
You are right, symplectic forms need to be closed. I've added it to documentation.
Thanks!
comment:106 Changed 6 months ago by
LGTM too.
comment:107 follow-up: ↓ 109 Changed 6 months ago by
Why are manifold.py
, scalarfield.py
and subset.py
touched in this ticket?
comment:108 Changed 6 months ago by
Here are some further comments:
- I'd raise an error if the dimension of a symplectic vector space is not even, similarly as you did for symplectic forms.
- Rather a comment than a necessity to change:
if latex_name is None: - latex_name = "\\omega" + latex_name = r"\omega"
- Some very minor comments on the documentation:
INPUT: - - ``f`` -- first function - - ``g`` -- second function + - ``f`` -- function inserted in the first slot + - ``g`` -- function inserted in the second slot
def volume_form(self, contra: int = 0) -> TensorField: r""" Liouville volume form `\omega^n` associated with the symplectic form `\omega`, - where `2n` is the dimension of the manifold). + where `2n` is the dimension of the manifold. - TODO: Decide about normalization
- I am not sure whether a TODO is supposed to be in the documentation part. I probably would prefer it somewhere in the code. Nevertheless, it'd be nice if you could elaborate a bit more what that is supposed to mean. E.g. if it's a decision, present possible choices. I personally see those snippets as reminder for me and/or as a teaser for other developers who might want to attack this. (As for the former, I tend to forget what I meant by those things if I keep it too vague. :P)
These are just very minor things. If you want to change it, nice. If not, don't worry.
I may take a closer look soon. But so far it already looks really really nice! :)
comment:109 in reply to: ↑ 107 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
Why are
manifold.py
,scalarfield.py
andsubset.py
touched in this ticket?
This is needed for the correct typing in the newly added classes, see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/30362#comment:93 for discussion on this point.
Thanks for the other suggestions. I've now implemented them.
comment:110 Changed 5 months ago by
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comment:111 follow-up: ↓ 115 Changed 5 months ago by
The new class is called SymplecticVectorSpace
but as far as I can see there is no vector space structure implemented: Elements are points and cannot be added or scaled.
Perhaps, if it's not too late for this change, it should be called just SymplecticSpace
(similar to EuclideanSpace
) and we reserve the name SymplecticVectorSpace
for later.
comment:112 Changed 5 months ago by
... or perhaps AffineSymplecticSpace
.
comment:113 Changed 5 months ago by
In particular, sage.modules
already has vector spaces that can be equipped with an arbitrary bilinear form - https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/modules/sage/modules/free_module.html#sage.modules.free_module.FreeModule; symplectic vector spaces are merely a special case.
comment:114 follow-up: ↓ 116 Changed 5 months ago by
Another thing. I think it is better to use Sage's factorial function in symplectic_form.py
, and import this function in the only method where it is needed, namely volume_form
:
from __future__ import annotations
from six.moves import range
from typing import Dict, Union, Optional
-from math import factorial
sage: vol = omega.volume_form() ; vol
4-form mu_omega on the 4-dimensional symplectic vector space R4
sage: vol.display()
mu_omega = dq1∧dp1∧dq2∧dp2
"""
+ from sage.functions.other import factorial
+
if self._vol_form is None:
comment:115 in reply to: ↑ 111 ; follow-up: ↓ 118 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to mkoeppe:
The new class is called
SymplecticVectorSpace
but as far as I can see there is no vector space structure implemented: Elements are points and cannot be added or scaled.
That's true. As written in the ticket description, the plan is to provide a "vector space as a manifold" example that should be used as the base class for SymplecticVectorSpace
.
.. or perhaps AffineSymplecticSpace?.
Not sure if one needs this generalization, and even then one probably wants to say that its an affine space modeled on a symplectic vector space.
comment:116 in reply to: ↑ 114 ; follow-up: ↓ 117 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
Another thing. I think it is better to use Sage's factorial function in
symplectic_form.py
I was wondering about this too, but in the end decided for the built-in factorial since the numbers for which one calculates this are very small (and are dominated by the n-th wedge product anyway). So I used the factorial from math to not pull-in some dependencies. But I can change this of course.
comment:117 in reply to: ↑ 116 ; follow-up: ↓ 120 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
to not pull-in some dependencies.
This does not matter here because sage.manifolds
already depends on all of sage.symbolic
and sage.functions
comment:118 in reply to: ↑ 115 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
.. or perhaps AffineSymplecticSpace?.
Not sure if one needs this generalization, and even then one probably wants to say that its an affine space modeled on a symplectic vector space.
I don't know, one could just say it's an affine space with a translation-invariant symplectic form.
comment:119 in reply to: ↑ description ; follow-up: ↓ 121 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
TODO (as follow-up tickets):
- Extract general coordinate stuff from
EuclideanSpace
to new classVectorSpace
, and letSymplecticVectorSpace
derive fromVectorSpace
We will have to be very careful with the design of this so that we do not add a 4th incompatible implementation of finite-dimensional vector spaces in Sage in this way. (We already have 3, implemented in sage.modules
, sage.combinat.free_module
, and sage.tensor.modules
, respectively, see the constructor in https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/modules/sage/modules/free_module.html#sage.modules.free_module.FreeModule)
That's why I would urge to set the vector space side of things aside and only focus on the (affine) symplectic space here on this ticket.
The relation of
- free modules with a symplectic form to
SymplecticSpace
- free modules with a positive definite form to
EuclideanSpace
should be done in one follow up ticket.
comment:120 in reply to: ↑ 117 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to mkoeppe:
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
to not pull-in some dependencies.
This does not matter here because
sage.manifolds
already depends on all ofsage.symbolic
andsage.functions
Unfortunately, I am not an expert in this import business. Why does sage.manifolds
matter here? And doesn't factorial
belong to sage.functions.other
? Wouldn't that make a difference, too? Notice that you did the same in diff_form.py
:
@@ -732,9 +746,22 @@ class DiffForm(TensorField): :meth:`~sage.manifolds.differentiable.metric.PseudoRiemannianMetric.hodge_star` for more examples. """ - if metric is None: - metric = self._vmodule._ambient_domain.metric() - return metric.hodge_star(self) + from sage.functions.other import factorial
comment:121 in reply to: ↑ 119 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to mkoeppe:
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
TODO (as follow-up tickets):
- Extract general coordinate stuff from
EuclideanSpace
to new classVectorSpace
, and letSymplecticVectorSpace
derive fromVectorSpace
We will have to be very careful with the design of this so that we do not add a 4th incompatible implementation of finite-dimensional vector spaces in Sage in this way. (We already have 3, implemented in
sage.modules
,sage.combinat.free_module
, andsage.tensor.modules
, respectively, see the constructor in https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/modules/sage/modules/free_module.html#sage.modules.free_module.FreeModule)
+1
That's why I would urge to set the vector space side of things aside and only focus on the (affine) symplectic space here on this ticket.
The relation of
- free modules with a symplectic form to
SymplecticSpace
- free modules with a positive definite form to
EuclideanSpace
should be done in one follow up ticket.
+1
In the current state, SymplecticVectorSpace
is simply a subclass of EuclideanSpace
, which is fine at this stage. Maybe, following Matthias' recommendation, just rename it to AffineSymplecticSpace
(despite there is no affine structure explicitly implemented). IMHO, SymplecticSpace
would be too general, sounding like a synonym for SymplecticManifold
.
Besides, I agree with Michael: import factorial
as in diff_form.py
.
comment:122 follow-up: ↓ 123 Changed 5 months ago by
To keep the old behavior of hodge_dual
, I'd suggest to fall back on the metric if no input has been given, otherwise an AttributeError
will be thrown (which didn't happen before):
from sage.functions.other import factorial
from sage.tensor.modules.format_utilities import format_unop_txt, \
format_unop_latex
+ if nondegenerate_tensor is None:
+ nondegenerate_tensor = self._vmodule._ambient_domain.metric()
p = self.tensor_type()[1]
eps = nondegenerate_tensor.volume_form(p)
Accordingly, this behavior should be documented.
comment:123 in reply to: ↑ 122 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
To keep the old behavior of
hodge_dual
, I'd suggest to fall back on the metric if no input has been given, otherwise anAttributeError
will be thrown (which didn't happen before):from sage.functions.other import factorial from sage.tensor.modules.format_utilities import format_unop_txt, \ format_unop_latex + if nondegenerate_tensor is None: + nondegenerate_tensor = self._vmodule._ambient_domain.metric() p = self.tensor_type()[1] eps = nondegenerate_tensor.volume_form(p)
Accordingly, this behavior should be documented.
In any case, if we really want to change this behavior, I'd opt for a more meaningful error message than NoneType object has no attribute...
.
comment:124 Changed 5 months ago by
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comment:125 follow-up: ↓ 138 Changed 5 months ago by
I've now implemented the your suggestions except for the name change to "AffineSymplecticSpace?". I agree that from a mathematical perspective "affine" has some justification, but in the end a affine symplectic space is diffeomorphic (even symplectomorphic) to a symplectic vector space; thus from a manifolds perspective there is no difference. More importantly, this class is meant as an example for symplectic manifolds (mostly for the doctests) and all textbooks talk about symplectic vector space but almost no one is interested in affine ones (google has like 800 hits for "affine symplectic space").
comment:126 Changed 5 months ago by
How is the vector space structure used? It seems to me that there is some conflation of the space and its (constant) tangent space happening.
comment:127 Changed 5 months ago by
Note that also most linear algebra textbooks also talk about vector spaces all the time even when they manipulate points in an affine space, not vectors in a vector space.
comment:128 Changed 5 months ago by
The manifold package currently doesn't provide a way to define a manifold abstractly (i.e. by specifying its points), instead a manifold is given in terms of its chart. But an affine and a vector space both have a single chart covering the whole space, the only difference being that there is no "canonical" choice in the affine case while there is one in the vector space setting.
The "correct" name of this class would be "a symplectic manifold symplectomorphic to R2n with its standard symplectic form". For me "symplectic vector space" is a good-enough approximation to this truth.
comment:129 follow-up: ↓ 130 Changed 5 months ago by
This would be fine in a specialized system focused only on manifolds; but Sage covers many mathematical areas, and I am concerned that it is misleading to introduce a class that is called ...VectorSpace
but is not in the category VectorSpaces
.
comment:130 in reply to: ↑ 129 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
The manifold package currently doesn't provide a way to define a manifold abstractly (i.e. by specifying its points), instead a manifold is given in terms of its chart.
All points on a manifold are already uniquely determined in terms of charts. In fact, due to the manifold structure, specifying a manifold by its points or by its charts is equivalent.
Replying to mkoeppe:
This would be fine in a specialized system focused only on manifolds; but Sage covers many mathematical areas, and I am concerned that it is misleading to introduce a class that is called
...VectorSpace
but is not in the categoryVectorSpaces
.
I agree. I also think that the best compromise for now is AffineSymplecticSpace
.
comment:131 follow-ups: ↓ 133 ↓ 135 Changed 5 months ago by
But its currently neither an affine nor a vector space... so the question would be: should sage (at some point) has a proper implementation of an affine symplectic space or of a symplectic vector space? In my opinion, for practical purposes, the vector version should be sufficient - if you really only have an affine space, then just don't use the fact that you could add vectors.
Even if we should go with affine symplectic, how would one express the fact that the chart depends on a choice of a base point?
comment:132 Changed 5 months ago by
A key difference is that we do not currently have a category for affine spaces. There's merely one implementation, in sage.schemes
, that implements AffineSpace
from a scheme-theoretic viewpoint. Its category is just the category of schemes, nothing more detailed than that.
comment:133 in reply to: ↑ 131 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
But its currently neither an affine nor a vector space... so the question would be: should sage (at some point) has a proper implementation of an affine symplectic space or of a symplectic vector space? In my opinion, for practical purposes, the vector version should be sufficient - if you really only have an affine space, then just don't use the fact that you could add vectors.
The important difference here is that, in a strict sense, the affine version has no vector space structure. If I understand Matthias's objection correctly, this is exactly the punchline.
comment:134 Changed 5 months ago by
In addition, notice that EuclideanSpace
is meant to represent an affine space, too:
An *Euclidean space of dimension* `n` is an affine space `E`, whose associated vector space is a `n`-dimensional vector space over `\RR` and is equipped with a positive definite symmetric bilinear form, called the *scalar product* or *dot product* [Ber1987]_. An Euclidean space of dimension `n` can also be viewed as a Riemannian manifold that is diffeomorphic to `\RR^n` and that has a flat metric `g`. The Euclidean scalar product is then that defined by the Riemannian metric `g`.
From that viewpoint, since you derive from EuclideanSpace
, it is only natural to view your implementation as an affine symplectic space.
comment:135 in reply to: ↑ 131 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
the question would be: should sage (at some point) has a proper implementation of an affine symplectic space or of a symplectic vector space?
To make it a "proper" affine space, one only needs to implement lines, easy to do.
On the other hand, to make it a vector space, one would need to identify the space with its tangent space -- so that the bilinear form can be applied to elements of the space.
comment:136 follow-up: ↓ 139 Changed 5 months ago by
@Eric: Speaking of which, that brings to my mind: do we want to implement a method vector_space
for EuclideanSpace
that returns the corresponding underlying vector space (w.r.t. a given frame)?
comment:137 Changed 5 months ago by
I think, affinness is sufficiently represented by:
sage: EuclideanSpace(3) is EuclideanSpace(3) False
Thus, you get two distinct affine spaces, you may (or may not) relate to each other. Of course, lines would make this construction mathematically more rigorous.
comment:138 in reply to: ↑ 125 ; follow-ups: ↓ 140 ↓ 143 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
More importantly, this class is meant as an example for symplectic manifolds (mostly for the doctests) and all textbooks talk about symplectic vector space but almost no one is interested in affine ones (google has like 800 hits for "affine symplectic space").
This is a good point. Let us forget then about AffineSymplecticSpace
. What about StandardSymplecticSpace
? This would be in line with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic_vector_space#Standard_symplectic_space.
comment:139 in reply to: ↑ 136 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
@Eric: Speaking of which, that brings to my mind: do we want to implement a method
vector_space
forEuclideanSpace
that returns the corresponding underlying vector space (w.r.t. a given frame)?
This should probably be discussed in the follow up ticket mentioned in comment:119, in particular to decide which (Sage) type of vector space we want to return.
comment:140 in reply to: ↑ 138 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to egourgoulhon:
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
More importantly, this class is meant as an example for symplectic manifolds (mostly for the doctests) and all textbooks talk about symplectic vector space but almost no one is interested in affine ones (google has like 800 hits for "affine symplectic space").
This is a good point. Let us forget then about
AffineSymplecticSpace
. What aboutStandardSymplecticSpace
? This would be in line with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic_vector_space#Standard_symplectic_space.
I am open to other suggestions, but I'd like to point out that the above implementation in fact represents an affine symplectic space since it derives from EuclideanSpace
. Thus, there is no other more appropriate name than AffineSymplecticSpace
.
And indeed, textbooks usually use symplectic vector spaces as primary example. But most textbooks also talk about the Euclidean vector space RR^n
as primary example for Riemannian manifolds. Nevertheless, we decided for the affine version in Sage for the sake of convenience and (imho) accuracy. I say we should not break with it now.
comment:141 follow-ups: ↓ 142 ↓ 147 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to mkoeppe:
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
the question would be: should sage (at some point) has a proper implementation of an affine symplectic space or of a symplectic vector space?
To make it a "proper" affine space, one only needs to implement lines, easy to do.
On the other hand, to make it a vector space, one would need to identify the space with its tangent space -- so that the bilinear form can be applied to elements of the space.
Well, you just declare the chart to be a linear isomorphism and your done carrying all the (vector space) structure over from Rn. Also easy ;-) To be precise, the new "SymplecticVectorSpace?" class currently represents nothing else then R2n with a fixed basis and its canonical symplectic form, with addition and scalar multiplation forgotten/not yet implemented. You could view this as an abstract affine symplectic space with a chart; but in order to define a chart on an affine space one needs to choose a base point and a basis.
For these reasons I really like the idea
What about StandardSymplecticSpace?
Should I go ahead and rename everything?
In addition, notice that EuclideanSpace? is meant to represent an affine space, too:
The documentation is at least claiming this, but EuclideanSpace? is also not a proper affine space either. You cannot subtract elements (at least I couldn't figure out how) and there is only one chart - but on an affine space you don't have a canonical chart; and once you fix a base point you have a vector space. Moreover, what are "polar coordinates" on an affine space? I think "EuclideanSpace?" is also just Rn with its Euclidean metric, so maybe it should be renamed to StandardEuclideanSpace? in a follow-up ticket?
Sorry for being so stubborn on this, but I would bet that an average graduate student has never seen the definition of an affine symplectic space (I certainly didn't) and so far I cannot see any good examples / uses cases why one would actually need them, especially for a CAS. I agree that the current implementation is not satisfying, but that's why I'd added it as a follow-up todo to implement the "vector space" part. Finally, and most importantly for me, I think the docstrings should try to be as understandable as possible, hiding as much mathematical complexity and focus on how the method/class are used - thus, I would like to use a symplectic vector space as a primary example in the documentation of a symplectic form and not an abstract concept one first has to lookup and understand.
comment:142 in reply to: ↑ 141 ; follow-up: ↓ 144 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
For these reasons I really like the idea
What about StandardSymplecticSpace?
Should I go ahead and rename everything?
Yes please go on. If you agree with this name, this makes at least two of us and it does not collide with the name VectorSpace
. We could still revert to SymplecticVectorSpace
later on. IMHO, this nomenclature debate should not prevent this ticket to make its way into Sage 9.5, which is about to be released.
In addition, notice that EuclideanSpace? is meant to represent an affine space, too:
The documentation is at least claiming this, but EuclideanSpace? is also not a proper affine space either.
Actually, the documentation is not claiming that EuclideanSpace
is an affine space, because the sentence just after the quoted one in comment:134 is
The current implementation of Euclidean spaces is based on the second point of view.
This second point of view is that of a Riemannian manifold, not of an affine space.
Sorry for being so stubborn on this, but I would bet that an average graduate student has never seen the definition of an affine symplectic space (I certainly didn't) and so far I cannot see any good examples / uses cases why one would actually need them, especially for a CAS.
+1
I agree that the current implementation is not satisfying, but that's why I'd added it as a follow-up todo to implement the "vector space" part. Finally, and most importantly for me, I think the docstrings should try to be as understandable as possible, hiding as much mathematical complexity and focus on how the method/class are used - thus, I would like to use a symplectic vector space as a primary example in the documentation of a symplectic form and not an abstract concept one first has to lookup and understand.
+1
comment:143 in reply to: ↑ 138 Changed 5 months ago by
comment:144 in reply to: ↑ 142 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to egourgoulhon:
Actually, the documentation is not claiming that
EuclideanSpace
is an affine space, because the sentence just after the quoted one in comment:134 isThe current implementation of Euclidean spaces is based on the second point of view.This second point of view is that of a Riemannian manifold, not of an affine space.
Fair enough.
All fine by me. :)
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comment:146 follow-up: ↓ 149 Changed 5 months ago by
- return f"{self._dim}-dimensional symplectic vector space {self._name}" + return f"Standard symplectic vector space {self._name}"
This looks like cheating to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the whole point that this implementation does not constitute a vector space? This would still leave the impression to the user that they can add/substract or scale points.
For the sake of consistency, I opt for:
- return f"Standard symplectic vector space {self._name}" + return f"Standard symplectic space {self._name}"
Otherwise, we have to rename Euclidean space
to Euclidean vector space
, too. Which wouldn't make sense to me due to the aforementioned reasons.
comment:147 in reply to: ↑ 141 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
Sorry for being so stubborn on this, but I would bet that an average graduate student has never seen the definition of an affine symplectic space (I certainly didn't) and so far I cannot see any good examples / uses cases why one would actually need them, especially for a CAS. I agree that the current implementation is not satisfying, but that's why I'd added it as a follow-up todo to implement the "vector space" part. Finally, and most importantly for me, I think the docstrings should try to be as understandable as possible, hiding as much mathematical complexity and focus on how the method/class are used - thus, I would like to use a symplectic vector space as a primary example in the documentation of a symplectic form and not an abstract concept one first has to lookup and understand.
Matthias already pointed out in comment:113 that symplectic vector spaces are at present part of Sage. More reasonable, in my opinion, would be a link between both implementations instead of equipping StandardSymplecticSpace
with an additional vector space structure. See for example #30832 for a vaguely similar attempt.
comment:148 follow-up: ↓ 150 Changed 5 months ago by
@Tobias: I'd like to point out that I perfectly understand your concerns. Actually, I dealt with similar issues when I started in the Sage project. Mathematical accuracy and implementation details cannot always be aligned, unfortunately. That being said, we cannot create Sage objects that unify all their mathematical properties. That's something Travis taught me with hours of patience. Isn't that right Travis? :D
comment:149 in reply to: ↑ 146 ; follow-ups: ↓ 151 ↓ 153 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
- return f"{self._dim}-dimensional symplectic vector space {self._name}" + return f"Standard symplectic vector space {self._name}"This looks like cheating to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the whole point that this implementation does not constitute a vector space? This would still leave the impression to the user that they can add/substract or scale points.
For the sake of consistency, I opt for:
- return f"Standard symplectic vector space {self._name}" + return f"Standard symplectic space {self._name}"Otherwise, we have to rename
Euclidean space
toEuclidean vector space
, too. Which wouldn't make sense to me due to the aforementioned reasons.
I wasn't sure about this one. The "vector space" part was meant to convey that "R2" is really the vector space R^2
one knows and that the symplectic form is constant. Can be changed of course.
comment:150 in reply to: ↑ 148 ; follow-ups: ↓ 152 ↓ 162 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
@Tobias: I'd like to point out that I perfectly understand your concerns. Actually, I dealt with similar issues when I started in the Sage project. Mathematical accuracy and implementation details cannot always be aligned, unfortunately. That being said, we cannot create Sage objects that unify all their mathematical properties. That's something Travis taught me with hours of patience. Isn't that right Travis? :D
I guess I still have much to learn ;-). So thanks for everyone's patience. Also, as a physicist by education, it is perhaps easier for me to ignore fine mathematical details (affine vs vector space) or mathematical structure (category theory) if that makes the implementation easier.
That being said, I still think it would be handy in applications if points of EuclideanSpace? could be added and scaled (without the need to resort to explicit coordinates).
comment:151 in reply to: ↑ 149 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
- return f"{self._dim}-dimensional symplectic vector space {self._name}" + return f"Standard symplectic vector space {self._name}"This looks like cheating to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the whole point that this implementation does not constitute a vector space? This would still leave the impression to the user that they can add/substract or scale points.
For the sake of consistency, I opt for:
- return f"Standard symplectic vector space {self._name}" + return f"Standard symplectic space {self._name}"Otherwise, we have to rename
Euclidean space
toEuclidean vector space
, too. Which wouldn't make sense to me due to the aforementioned reasons.I wasn't sure about this one. The "vector space" part was meant to convey that "R2" is really the vector space
R^2
one knows and that the symplectic form is constant. Can be changed of course.
Yes please change it for consistency, albeit I agree that "vector space" in the name would make perfectly clear that the object is what the user expect.
comment:152 in reply to: ↑ 150 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
That being said, I still think it would be handy in applications if points of EuclideanSpace? could be added and scaled (without the need to resort to explicit coordinates).
This would be handy indeed and there is no reason why this cannot be implemented in a future ticket.
comment:153 in reply to: ↑ 149 ; follow-up: ↓ 156 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
I wasn't sure about this one. The "vector space" part was meant to convey that "R2" is really the vector space
R^2
one knows and that the symplectic form is constant. Can be changed of course.
Well, the Euclidean space is abbreviated with E^n
and not R^n
. Perhaps we should do the same here, too?
At least until we have the vector space structure on Euclidean space (though, I'd personally prefer an affine structure).
This all is indeed a bit of a hassle, and a lot of subtleties lie on the path. Maybe it is a good idea to nudge a discussion with the Sage (manifolds) community?
comment:154 Changed 5 months ago by
In my head, these things make perfect sense for me:
- Euclidean space in Sage is an affine vector space.
- The symplectic space above is an affine space, too, endowed with a symplectic structure.
- As for the vector space structure, I think we should link the Euclidean space to preexisting vector spaces endowed with bilinear forms.
I am open to suggestions, different opinions and arguments. :)
But that's not for this ticket.
comment:155 follow-up: ↓ 158 Changed 5 months ago by
By the way, why don't you add StandardSymplecticSpace
to the manifold catalog?
This would avoid having to import it:
- sage: from sage.manifolds.differentiable.examples.symplectic_space import StandardSymplecticSpace - sage: M.<q, p> = StandardSymplecticSpace(2, symplectic_name='omega') + sage: M.<q, p> = manifolds.StandardSymplecticSpace(2, symplectic_name='omega')
To do this, simply add
_lazy_import('sage.manifolds.differentiable.examples.symplectic_space', 'StandardSymplecticSpace')
to the file src/sage/manifolds/catalog.py
(see e.g. the example of Sphere
in that file).
comment:156 in reply to: ↑ 153 ; follow-up: ↓ 157 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
Well, the Euclidean space is abbreviated with
E^n
and notR^n
. Perhaps we should do the same here, too?
-1. R^n
is certainly much more standard here.
comment:157 in reply to: ↑ 156 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to egourgoulhon:
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
Well, the Euclidean space is abbreviated with
E^n
and notR^n
. Perhaps we should do the same here, too?-1.
R^n
is certainly much more standard here.
Mhm. Well, since StandardSymplecticSpace
inherits from EuclideanSpace
, such an object still carries the structure of Euclidean space. I see your point though. Difficult...
comment:158 in reply to: ↑ 155 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to egourgoulhon:
By the way, why don't you add
StandardSymplecticSpace
to the manifold catalog? This would avoid having to import it:- sage: from sage.manifolds.differentiable.examples.symplectic_space import StandardSymplecticSpace - sage: M.<q, p> = StandardSymplecticSpace(2, symplectic_name='omega') + sage: M.<q, p> = manifolds.StandardSymplecticSpace(2, symplectic_name='omega')To do this, simply add
_lazy_import('sage.manifolds.differentiable.examples.symplectic_space', 'StandardSymplecticSpace')to the file
src/sage/manifolds/catalog.py
(see e.g. the example ofSphere
in that file).
Big +1.
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comment:161 Changed 5 months ago by
Okay done
comment:162 in reply to: ↑ 150 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
@Tobias: I'd like to point out that I perfectly understand your concerns. Actually, I dealt with similar issues when I started in the Sage project. Mathematical accuracy and implementation details cannot always be aligned, unfortunately. That being said, we cannot create Sage objects that unify all their mathematical properties. That's something Travis taught me with hours of patience. Isn't that right Travis? :D
I guess I still have much to learn ;-). So thanks for everyone's patience. Also, as a physicist by education, it is perhaps easier for me to ignore fine mathematical details (affine vs vector space) or mathematical structure (category theory) if that makes the implementation easier.
The "canonical" example of this is the real numbers. In implementations, we run up against things that are not quite mathematical, but we have to deal with the realities of finite and explicit computations.
comment:163 Changed 5 months ago by
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Thanks for the changes!
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comment:165 Changed 5 months ago by
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The documentation was broken after the change of filename symplectic_vector_space.py
--> symplectic_space.py
. This is fixed in the latest commit.
comment:166 Changed 5 months ago by
Thanks for the review and the fix!
comment:167 Changed 5 months ago by
Looks good to me too.
comment:168 follow-up: ↓ 169 Changed 5 months ago by
Last question: do we really need to import everything in the test files?
Otherwise, LGTM.
comment:169 in reply to: ↑ 168 Changed 5 months ago by
Replying to gh-mjungmath:
Last question: do we really need to import everything in the test files?
Otherwise, LGTM.
Sadly yes, at the moment, since there are a few cyclic imports that are only resolved using the sage.all
import.
comment:170 Changed 5 months ago by
Then we should probably add a TODO
comment so that we don't forget to rectify this in due course, no?
comment:171 Changed 5 months ago by
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Merge conflict
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comment:173 Changed 5 months ago by
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Merge conflict fixed.
comment:174 Changed 4 months ago by
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comment:176 follow-up: ↓ 179 Changed 4 months ago by
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Now that the branch has been merged in Sage 9.6.beta0 (unfortunately it did not make its way to Sage 9.5...), there remains a last thing to do: preparing some examples of use for Sage 9.6 release tour, on the same footing as what has been done for Sage 9.5: https://wiki.sagemath.org/ReleaseTours/sage-9.5#Manifolds. I've just added an entry for this in Sage 9.6 release tour. Tobias, could you provide some nice examples?
comment:177 follow-up: ↓ 178 Changed 4 months ago by
Is a copy&paste from the doctests good enough?
Should I paste it here then, or how does one get access to the wiki?
comment:178 in reply to: ↑ 177 Changed 4 months ago by
Replying to gh-tobiasdiez:
Is a copy&paste from the doctests good enough?
It would be a bit better to give a very quick summary and some simple example usage (which can by c/p from the doctests).
Should I paste it here then, or how does one get access to the wiki?
You can edit the wiki by logging in with your trac account info. I don't know if it works for gh authentication.
comment:179 in reply to: ↑ 176 Changed 8 weeks ago by
Replying to egourgoulhon:
Now that the branch has been merged in Sage 9.6.beta0 (unfortunately it did not make its way to Sage 9.5...), there remains a last thing to do: preparing some examples of use for Sage 9.6 release tour, on the same footing as what has been done for Sage 9.5: https://wiki.sagemath.org/ReleaseTours/sage-9.5#Manifolds. I've just added an entry for this in Sage 9.6 release tour. Tobias, could you provide some nice examples?
Ping (since the release of Sage 9.6 seems to be close).
comment:180 Changed 5 weeks ago by
Another ping, pointing to the new release tour page, which is editable via a github login: https://trac.sagemath.org/wiki/ReleaseTours/sage-9.6?version=13#Symplecticmanifolds Tobias, would you have time to provide a few examples there?
comment:181 follow-up: ↓ 182 Changed 5 weeks ago by
Sorry, I've been somewhat busy and forgot about this. Thanks for the reminder! I've now updated the release notes with a quick introduction.
In my humble opinion, I think the very first step should be to establish a Poisson manifold. This is much more general, i.e. symplectic structures / manifolds are special cases of them. Since none of these are implemented yet, it is much easier to start with the more general setup.
I am still busy with other things, but as soon as I have some free time, I could go through your code. However, it would be good to at least remove unneccessary methods (like e.g.
hodge_star
orsqrt_abs_det
) to make the code much more readable and seek your new features immediately.I noticed that you already added typing. I think, this belongs to another ticket, namely #29775, and should be discussed there before we apply it to new things. There is still this issue with pyflakes and it seems there are still different opinions.
The use of
...Paral
is of course necessary since structures on manifolds are "glued together" via parallelizable parts. I agree in so far that there is no explicit need to expose it to the user since this is all managed via methods inmanifold.py
, that's right. Howver, in my opinion, there's also nothing wrong about it. Since this is a general problem not only restricted to symplectic forms, I suggest you open another ticket if you want to discuss it.