Pointwise product

Pointwise product

The pointwise product of two functions is another function, obtained by multiplying the image of the two functions at each value in the domain. If "f" and "g" are both functions with domain "X" and codomain "Y", and elements of "Y" can be multiplied (for instance, "Y" could be some set of numbers), then the pointwise product of "f" and "g" is another function from "X" to "Y" which maps "x" ∈ "X" to "f"("x")"g"("x").

Formal definition

Let "X" and "Y" be sets, and let multiplication be defined in "Y"—that is, for each "y" and "z" in "Y" let the product: cdot : Y imes Y longrightarrow Y given by y cdot z = yzbe well-defined. Let "f" and "g" be functions "f", "g" : "X" → "Y". Then the pointwise product ("f" • "g") : "X" → "Y" is defined by

: (f cdot g)(x) = f(x) cdot g(x)

for each "x" in "X". In the same manner in which the binary operator • is omitted from products, we say that "f" • "g" = "fg".

Examples

The most common case of the pointwise product of two functions is when the co-domain is a ring (or field), in which multiplication is well-defined.

* If "Y" is the set of real numbers R, then the pointwise product of "f", "g" : "X" → R is just normal multiplication of the images. For example, if we have "f"("x") = 2"x" and "g"("x") = "x" + 1 then

: (fg)(x) = f(x)g(x) = 2x(x + 1) = 2x^2 + 2x,

for every real number "x" in R.

Algebraic application of pointwise products

Let "X" be a set and let "R" be a ring. Since addition and multiplication are defined in "R", we can construct an algebraic structure known as an algebra out of the functions from "X" to "R" by defining addition, multiplication, and scalar multiplication of functions to be done pointwise.

If "R" "X" denotes the set of functions from "X" to "R", then we say that if "f", "g" are elements of "R" "X", then "f" + "g", "fg", and "rf", the last of which is defined by: (rf)(x) = rf(x),for all "r" in "R", are all elements of "R" "X".

Generalization

If both "f" and "g" have as their domain all possible assignments of a set of discrete variables, then their pointwise product is a function whose domain is constructed by all possible assignments of the union of both sets. The value of each assignment is calculated as the product of the values of both functions given to each one the subset of the assignment that is in its domain.

For example, given the function "f"1() for the boolean variables "p" and "q", and "f"2() for the boolean variables "q" and "r", both with the range in R, the pointwise product of "f"1() and "f"2() is shown in the next table:




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