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### State Algebra Operations

| Note
The following does not apply to implicit steppers like implicit_euler or Rosenbrock 4 as there the `state_type` can not be changed from `ublas::vector` and no algebra/operations are used.

##### Description

The `State`, `Algebra` and `Operations` together define a concept describing how the mathematical vector operations required for the stepper algorithms are performed. The typical vector operation done within steppers is

y = Σ αi xi.

The `State` represents the state variable of an ODE, usually denoted with x. Algorithmically, the state is often realized as a `vector< double >` or `array< double , N >`, however, the genericity of odeint enables you to basically use anything as a state type. The algorithmic counterpart of such mathematical expressions is divided into two parts. First, the `Algebra` is used to account for the vector character of the equation. In the case of a `vector` as state type this means the `Algebra` is responsible for iteration over all vector elements. Second, the `Operations` are used to represent the actual operation applied to each of the vector elements. So the `Algebra` iterates over all elements of the `State`s and calls an operation taken from the `Operations` for each element. This is where `State`, `Algebra` and `Operations` have to work together to make odeint running. Please have a look at the `range_algebra` and `default_operations` to see an example how this is implemented.

In the following we describe how `State`, `Algebra` and `Operations` are used together within the stepper implementations.

#### Operations

###### Notation

`Operations`

  The operations type

`Value1`, ... , `ValueN`

  Types representing the value or time type of stepper

`Scale`

  Type of the scale operation

`scale`

  Object of type `Scale`

`ScaleSumN`

  Type that represents a general scale_sum operation, `N` should be replaced by a number from 1 to 14.

`scale_sumN`

  Object of type `ScaleSumN`, `N` should be replaced by a number from 1 to 14.

`ScaleSumSwap2`

  Type of the scale sum swap operation

`scale_sum_swap2`

  Object of type `ScaleSumSwap2`

`a1, a2, ...`

  Objects of type `Value1`, `Value2`, ...

`y, x1, x2, ...`

  Objects of `State`'s value type

###### Valid Expressions

Name | Expression | Type | Semantics
--- | --- | --- | ---
Get scale operation | `Operations::scale< Value >` | `Scale` | Get `Scale` from `Operations`
`Scale` constructor | `Scale< Value >( a )` | `Scale` | Constructs a `Scale` object
`Scale` operation | `scale( x )` | `void` | Calculates `x *= a`
Get general `scale_sum` operation | `Operations::scale_sumN< Value1 , ... , ValueN >` | `ScaleSumN` | Get the `ScaleSumN` type from `Operations`, `N` should be replaced by a number from 1 to 14.
`scale_sum` constructor | `ScaleSumN< Value1 , ... , ValueN >( a1 , ... , aN )` | `ScaleSumN` | Constructs a `scale_sum` object given `N` parameter values with `N` between 1 and 14.
`scale_sum` operation | `scale_sumN( y , x1 , ... , xN )` | `void` | Calculates `y = a1*x1 + a2*x2 + ... + aN*xN`. Note that this is an `N+1`-ary function call.
Get scale sum swap operation | `Operations::scale_sum_swap2< Value1 , Value2 >` | `ScaleSumSwap2` | Get scale sum swap from operations
`ScaleSumSwap2` constructor | `ScaleSumSwap2< Value1 , Value2 >( a1 , a2 )` | `ScaleSumSwap2` | Constructor
`ScaleSumSwap2` operation | `scale_sum_swap2( x1 , x2 , x3 )` | `void` | Calculates `tmp = x1`, `x1 = a1*x2 + a2*x3` and `x2 = tmp`.

#### Algebra

###### Notation

`State`

  The state type

`Algebra`

  The algebra type

`OperationN`

  An `N`-ary operation type, `N` should be a number from 1 to 14.

`algebra`

  Object of type `Algebra`

`operationN`

  Object of type `OperationN`

`y, x1, x2, ...`

  Objects of type `State`

###### Valid Expressions

Name | Expression | Type | Semantics
--- | --- | --- | ---
Vector Operation with arity 2 | `algebra.for_each2( y , x , operation2 )` | void | Calls `operation2( y_i , x_i )` for each element `y_i` of `y` and `x_i` of `x`.
Vector Operation with arity 3 | `algebra.for_each3( y , x1 , x2 , operation3 )` | void | Calls `operation3( y_i , x1_i , x2_i )` for each element `y_i` of `y` and `x1_i` of `x1` and `x2_i` of `x2`.
Vector Operation with arity `N` | `algebra.for_eachN( y , x1 , ... , xN , operationN )` | void | Calls `operationN( y_i , x1_i , ... , xN_i )` for each element `y_i` of `y` and `x1_i` of `x1` and so on. `N` should be replaced by a number between 1 and 14.

#### Pre-Defined implementations

As standard configuration odeint uses the `range_algebra` and `default_operations` which suffices most situations. However, a few more possibilities exist either to gain better performance or to ensure interoperability with other libraries. In the following we list the existing `Algebra`/`Operations` configurations that can be used in the steppers.

`State` | `Algebra` | `Operations` | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Anything supporting Boost.Range, like `std::vector`, `std::list`, `boost::array`,... based on a `value_type` that supports operators +,* (typically `double`) | `range_algebra` | `default_operations` | Standard implementation, applicable for most typical situations.
`boost::array` based on a `value_type` that supports operators +,* | `array_algebra` | `default_operations` | Special implementation for boost::array with better performance than `range_algebra`
Anything that defines operators + within itself and * with scalar (Mathematically spoken, anything that is a vector space). | `vector_space_algebra` | `default_operations` | For the use of Controlled Stepper, the template `vector_space_reduce` has to be instantiated.
`thrust::device_vector`, `thrust::host_vector` | `thrust_algebra` | `thrust_operations` | For running odeint on CUDA devices by using Thrust
Any RandomAccessRange | `openmp_range_algebra` | `default_operations` | OpenMP-parallelised range algebra
`openmp_state` | `openmp_algebra` | `default_operations` | OpenMP-parallelised algebra for split data
`boost::array` or anything which allocates the elements in a C-like manner | `vector_space_algebra` | `mkl_operations` | Using the Intel Math Kernel Library in odeint for maximum performance. Currently, only the RK4 stepper is supported.

#### Example expressions

Name | Expression | Type | Semantics
--- | --- | --- | ---
Vector operation | `algebra.for_each3( y , x1 , x2 , Operations::scale_sum2< Value1 , Value2 >( a1 , a2 ) )` | void | Calculates y = a1 x1 + a2 x2