Conjugate
Conjugate[z]
or z gives the complex conjugate of the complex number z.
Details
- Mathematical function, suitable for both symbolic and numerical manipulation.
- can be entered as co, conj, or \[Conjugate].
- Conjugate automatically threads over lists. »
- Conjugate can be used with Interval and CenteredInterval objects. »
Examples
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Scope (24)
Numerical Evaluation (6)
The precision of the output tracks the precision of the input:
Evaluate efficiently at high precision:
Compute the elementwise values of an array using automatic threading:
Or compute the matrix Conjugate function using MatrixFunction:
Conjugate can be used with Interval and CenteredInterval objects:
Or compute average-case statistical intervals using Around:
Specific Values (3)
Visualization (4)
Function Properties (11)
Conjugate is defined for all real and complex inputs:
The range of Conjugate is all real and complex values:
Conjugate is an odd function:
Conjugate is involutive, :
Conjugate is not a differentiable function:
The difference quotient does not have a limit in the complex plane:
The limit has different values in different directions, for example, in the real direction:
But in the imaginary direction, the limit is :
Conjugate is not an analytic function:
It is singular everywhere but continuous:
Conjugate is nondecreasing on the real line:
Conjugate is injective on the real line:
Conjugate is surjective on the real line:
Conjugate is neither non-negative nor non-positive:
TraditionalForm formatting:
Applications (6)
Define a scalar product for complex‐valued lists utilizing BraKet notation:
Rewrite a complex-valued rational function into one with real denominator:
Recover the original fraction:
Implement a Möbius transformation:
Plot the images of concentric circles:
Write a real‐valued function as a function of z and z:
Holomorphic functions are independent of z:
Use Conjugate to describe geometric regions:
In quantum mechanics, systems with finitely many states are represented by unit vectors and physical quantities by matrices that act on them. Consider a spin-1/2 particle such as an electron in the following state:
The operator for the component of angular momentum is given by the following matrix:
Compute the expected angular momentum in this state as :
The uncertainty in the angular momentum is :
The uncertainty in the component of angular momentum is computed analogously:
The uncertainty principle gives a lower bound on the product of uncertainties, :
Properties & Relations (7)
Some transformations are performed automatically:
Conjugate is its own inverse:
Simplify expressions containing Conjugate:
Assume generic complex‐valued variables:
Use Conjugate as an option value in ComplexExpand:
Integrate along a line in the complex plane, symbolically and numerically:
Find Hermitian conjugate of a matrix:
Use ConjugateTranspose instead:
Possible Issues (4)
Conjugate does not always propagate into arguments:
Differentiating Conjugate is not possible:
The limit that defines the derivative is direction dependent and therefore does not exist:
Use ComplexExpand to get differentiable expressions for real-valued variables:
Conjugate can stay unevaluated for numeric arguments:
Machine‐precision numeric evaluation of Conjugate can give wrong results:
Text
Wolfram Research (1988), Conjugate, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Conjugate.html (updated 2021).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1988. "Conjugate." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2021. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Conjugate.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1988). Conjugate. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Conjugate.html