What's the vector equivalent to Pythons list addition? `[1,2]+[3,4]=[1,2,3,4]`

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What's the best way of appending vectors in sage? I'm after the equivalent of Python list addition [1,2]+[3,4]=[1,2,3,4]

Answer 1

You could define two homomorphisms into the free module of rank len(v1)+len(v2):

sage: v1 = vector([1,2])
sage: v2 = vector([3,4])
sage: R = v1.parent(); R
Ambient free module of rank 2 over the principal ideal domain Integer Ring

sage: F = FreeModule(ZZ,4)
sage: F.gens()
((1, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0, 0), (0, 0, 1, 0), (0, 0, 0, 1))

sage: phi1 = R.hom(F.gens()[0:2]); phi1
Free module morphism defined by the matrix
[1 0 0 0]
[0 1 0 0]
Domain: Ambient free module of rank 2 over the principal ideal domain ...
Codomain: Ambient free module of rank 4 over the principal ideal domain ...
sage: phi2 = R.hom(F.gens()[2:4]); phi2
Free module morphism defined by the matrix
[0 0 1 0]
[0 0 0 1]
Domain: Ambient free module of rank 2 over the principal ideal domain ...
Codomain: Ambient free module of rank 4 over the principal ideal domain ...

sage: phi1(v1) + phi2(v2)
(1, 2, 3, 4)

Note that this may have some aesthetic appeal, but your vector(v1.list() + v2.list()) is much more direct :)

That, I beliveve, I would never have found myself :) Thanks mandrake (Dec 16 '10)

Answer 2

2	I'll start off with the hugely ugly create lists from vectors, append and create vector again. `>>> v1 = vector([1,2]) >>> v2 = vector([3,4]) >>> vector( list(v1) + list(v2) ) (1,2,3,4)` link posted Dec 10 '10 mandrake 53 ● 1 ● 10 updated Dec 10 '10

What's the vector equivalent to Pythons list addition? `[1,2]+[3,4]=[1,2,3,4]`

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