MULTICOMPLEX TAYLOR SERIES EXPANSION
FOR COMPUTING HIGH-ORDER DERIVATIVES
Harry R. Millwater1, Sara Shirinkam2 1Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at San Antonio
TX 78249, USA 2Department of Mathematics
University of Texas at San Antonio
TX 78249, USA
Abstract. Multicomplex Taylor series expansion (MCTSE) is a numerical method for calculating higher-order partial derivatives of a multivariable real-valued and complex-valued analytic function based on Taylor series expansion without subtraction cancelation errors. The implementation has been facilitated using Cauchy-Riemann matrix representation of multicomplex variables. In this paper, we show steps for finding these matrices and, in addition, that the number of appearances of the k-th derivatives follows the Pascal's triangle. Also, the situations where the MCTSE is not applicable is determined. Finally, we investigate the application of the method for complex-valued functions.
AMS Subject classification: 30E05, 30E10, 46G20
Keywords and phrases: complex Taylor series expansion, high-order derivatives, multicomplex numbers
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DOI: 10.12732/ijam.v27i4.2
Volume: 27
Issue: 4
Year: 2014