The Implicit Function Theorem I
A harder example.
Consider the system of equations
\begin{align}
F_1(x,y,u,v) := xye^u + \sin(v-u) &= 0\\
F_2(x,y,u,v) :=(x+1)(y+2)(u+3)(v+4) - 24 &=0
\end{align}
Note that $(0,0,0,0)$ is a solution.
We will answer the following questions:
Does the system of equations implicitly determine $(u,v)$
as a function of $(x,y)$, i.e. $(u,v) = \bff(x,y)$ for $(x,y)$ near $(0,0)$, and with $f(0,0) = (0,0)$?
If so, find a formula for $\partial_x \bff(x,y)$ at $(x,y) = (0,0)$.
Solution. First, let $\bfF = \binom{F_1}{F_2}$.
Then we consider the matrix
$$
\left(\begin{array}{ll}
\partial_u F_1&\partial_v F_1\\
\partial_u F_2&\partial_v F_2
\end{array}
\right) \ = \
\left(\begin{array}{cc}
xye^u - \cos(v-u)&\cos(v-u)\\
(x+1)(y+2)(v+4)&(x+1)(y+2)(u+3)
\end{array}
\right)
$$
At $(x,y,u,v) = (0,0,0,0)$ this becomes
\begin{equation}\label{matrix}
\left(\begin{array}{rr}
-1&1\\8&6
\end{array}
\right).
\end{equation}
This matrix is invertible, so the theorem guarantees that the equations
implicitly determine $(u,v)$ as function of $(x,y)$.
Next we find $\partial_x \bff = \binom{\partial_x f_1}{\partial_x f_2}$, where
$\binom uv = \bff(x,y) = \binom{f_1(x,y)}{f_2(x,y)}$ is the implicitly defined function.
We start with the equations
\begin{align}
xye^u + \sin(v-u) &= 0\\
(x+1)(y+2)(u+3)(v+4) - 24 &=0.
\end{align}
We next implicitly differentiate everything with respect to $x$,
taking care to remember that we are considering $x,y$ as independent variables
and $u,v$ as dependent variables, so $\frac{\partial y}{\partial x}= 0$. Then
after gathering terms we get
\begin{align}
ye^u + \left( xy e^u - \cos(v-u)\right) \frac{\partial u}{\partial x} + \cos(v-u)\frac{\partial v}{\partial x} &= 0\\
(y+2)(u+3)(v+4) +(x+1)(y+2)(v+4)\frac{\partial u}{\partial x} +(x+1)(y+2)(u+3)\frac{\partial v}{\partial x} &=0.
\end{align}
At $(x,y,u,v) = (0,0,0,0)$ this reduces to
\begin{align}
\left(\begin{array}{rr}
-1&1\\ 8&6
\end{array}
\right)\binom
{\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}}
{\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}} = \binom 0{-24}.
\label{concrete}\end{align}
This can be solved
to find that
$$
\binom{\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}}
{\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}} = \frac{1}{-14}
\left(
\begin{array}{rr}
6&-1 \\
-8&-1
\end{array}
\right)\binom0 {-24} = -\binom{12/7}{12/7}.
$$
In solving this, we have used the forumla for the inverse of a $2\times 2$ matrix:
$$
\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
a&b \\
c&d
\end{array}
\right)^{-1}
\ = \
\frac {1}{ad-bc}
\left(\begin{array}{rr}
d&-b \\
-c&a
\end{array}\right) ,
$$ |