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Multivariate Bell Polynomials and Derivatives of Composed Functions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2019-03-12 v1

Abstract

How do we take repeated derivatives of composed multivariate functions? for one-dimensional functions, the common tools consist of the Fa\'a di Bruno formula with Bell polynomials; while there are extensions of the Fa\'a di Bruno formula, there are no corresponding Bell polynomials. In this paper, we generalize the single-variable Bell polynomials to take vector-valued arguments indexed by multi-indices which we use to rewrite the Fa\'a di Bruno formula to find derivatives of f(g(x))\textbf{f}(\textbf{g}(\textbf{x})).

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@article{arxiv.1903.03899,
  title  = {Multivariate Bell Polynomials and Derivatives of Composed Functions},
  author = {Aidan Schumann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.03899},
  year   = {2019}
}

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16 pages, 2 tables

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