tensorprod: Tensor products of k-tensors

In stokes: The Exterior Calculus

Tensor products of k-tensors

Description

Tensor products of k-tensors

Usage

tensorprod(U, ...)
tensorprod2(U1,U2)

Arguments

U, U1, U2	Object of class ktensor
...	Further arguments, currently ignored

Details

Given a k-tensor S and an l-tensor T, we can form the tensor product S\otimes T, defined as

S\otimes T\left(v_1,\ldots,v_k,v_{k+1},\ldots, v_{k+l}\right)= S\left(v_1,\ldots v_k\right)\cdot T\left(v_{k+1},\ldots v_{k+l}\right).

Package idiom for this includes tensorprod(S,T) and S %X% T; note that the tensor product is not commutative. Function tensorprod() can take any number of arguments (the result is well-defined because the tensor product is associative); it uses tensorprod2() as a low-level helper function.

Value

The functions documented here all return a spray object.

Note

The binary form %X% uses uppercase X to avoid clashing with %x% which is the Kronecker product in base R.

Author(s)

Robin K. S. Hankin

References

Spivak 1961

See Also

ktensor

Examples

(A <- ktensor(spray(matrix(c(1,1,2,2,3,3),2,3,byrow=TRUE),1:2)))
(B <- ktensor(spray(10+matrix(4:9,3,2),5:7)))
tensorprod(A,B)

A %X% B - B %X% A


Va <- matrix(rnorm(9),3,3)
Vb <- matrix(rnorm(38),19,2)

LHS <- as.function(A %X% B)(cbind(rbind(Va,matrix(0,19-3,3)),Vb))
RHS <-  as.function(A)(Va) * as.function(B)(Vb)

c(LHS=LHS,RHS=RHS,diff=LHS-RHS)

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