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dcfun


Installation


Documentation

License

The package dcfun is distributed under the GNU license GPLv3.

Download

dcfun 0.0.0 (January 2024)

The package is provided as a compressed archive file dcfun.tar.gz. Downloading and uncompressing it somewhere in your home directory, results in a directory dcfun.

For an easier installation, the package is provided as the Maple archive dcfun.mla. Put it where you want, and if dcfun_path is that location, set the variable libname so that Maple knows how to find dcfun, by libname := "dcfun_path", libname;. If all works well, the Maple command dcfun:-version(); will answer the version number (as a matter of fact a string) above.

The source of the package is provided under dcfun/src/.

Help

You will find help pages for the exported procedures of the package in the documentation part of the web site. You also will find there tutorials to guide you through your first steps in using dcfun.

For an offline read of the documentation, you can use your favorite browser to open the file dcfun/index.html, which gives you the help available on the documentation page.

Jupyter

The help pages are frozen Jupyter notebooks. If, in addition to Maple, Jupyter is installed on your desktop / laptop (see Jupyter), then the Jupyter notebooks are accessible in the directory dcfun/nb/. You will need to install Maple as a kernel (see Kernels for Jupyter). Note that the translation from notebooks to html pages is not perfect and the results of the computations are not always displayed well.

In the help pages in notebook format, we have defined the path for accessing Maple as follows

libname := libname, FileTools:-JoinPath(["maple","lib","dcfun.mla"],base=homedir):
This choice requires you to place dcfun.mla in the directory <your homedir>/maple/lib/, or to cleverly modify the string FileTools:-JoinPath(["maple","lib","dcfun.mla"],base=homedir) in all notebook files.

Singular

Some of the computations related to the solving of Riccati Mahler equations need the use of the computer algebra system Singular. (We resort to Singular as Maple does not provide the user with an absolute prime decomposition of a polynomial ideal.) You can test that Singular is seen from Maple with the Maple command ssystem("which Singular");. See the help pages of LMOpSolve and RiccatiSolve for more details about the use of Singular by the package.

Acknowledgements

I warmly thank Frédéric Chyzak for his constant support in this project, Bruno Salvy for his enlightened advice, and Marc Mezzarobba for his help in setting up the link with Singular.