Mathematica misinterprets some underscored symbolic variables

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bekalph
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Following examples show that the interface between sage and Mathematica misinterprets symbolic variables if they are underscored with numbers:

sage: h_20,h_10,h_2,h_3,h20,h10,h_ij,h_kl=var("h_20,h_10,h_2,h_3,h20,h10,h_ij,h_kl");
sage: mexpr=mathematica((h_20+h_10)^3);
sage: print(mexpr);
                3
     27000 (h_)
sage: mexpr1=mathematica((h20+h10)^3);
sage: print(mexpr1);
                3
     (h10 + h20)
sage: mexpr2=mathematica((h_2+h_3)^3);
sage: print(mexpr2);
             3
     125 (h_)
sage: mexpr3=mathematica((h_ij+h_kl)^3);
sage: print(mexpr3);
                      3
     ((h_ij) + (h_kl))

I use sage-8.1 and Mathematica 11.2.0 at Linux OpenSUSE Leap v42.3. In this forum I haven't found any other comment regarding this funny behaviour.

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answered 7 years ago

DanialBagh

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I'm not entirely sure but I think Mathematica doesn't like underlines, so instead of defining variables like A_ij I would define Aij. You just have to adhere to naming conventions in both Mathematica and Sage, so something like Aij would be acceptable in both, I think.

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I agree, The best method to circumvent this problem is substituting the "_"- symbol by unique identifiers in sage and subsequently replacing them in Mathematica by its appropriate underscoring. key combination. This workaround should be applied to all kinds of underscored symbols (not only for underscored numbers).

bekalph ( 7 years ago )

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