Physics[GrassmannParity] - compute the Grassmannian parity, as 0, 1 or undefined, according to whether an expression is commutative, anticommutative or noncommutative
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Calling Sequence
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GrassmannParity(expression)
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Parameters
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expression
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algebraic expression, or relation between them, or a set or list of them
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Description
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The GrassmannParity command computes the Grassmannian parity of expression, that is, 0, 1 or undefined, according to whether expression is commutative, anticommutative or noncommutative. In this sense, the parity here is equivalent to the type.
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Compatibility
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The Physics[GrassmannParity] command was introduced in Maple 16.
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Examples
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Set theta as an anticommutative prefix (see Setup)
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The parity of (3) is 0 despite the presence of anticommutative variables: a product of two of them is overall commutative
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A commutative function of commutative and anticommutative variables: its parity is zero
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A taylor expansion as well as an exact expansion for it respectively performed with Gtaylor and ToFieldComponents
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Note that the expansion performed with Gtaylor does not preserve the parity of (5) while the one performed with ToFieldComponents does:
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The coefficient of order zero of both expansions preserves the parity; the difference appears with respect to the the coefficient of order 1
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To understand this difference between the Taylor and the exact expansions performed with Gtaylor and ToFieldComponents see the expansion's definitions in the respective help pages
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