Letting mathematica compute taylor expansion of implicit function.

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The discussion focuses on computing the Taylor expansion of the implicit function defined by the equation z^3 - 2xz + y = 0 at the point (1,1,1) using Mathematica. The user seeks guidance on applying the implicit function theorem to derive the necessary derivatives for the expansion. It is established that the Series command in Mathematica does not directly support this computation, necessitating a custom routine to calculate the derivatives. The provided code snippet demonstrates how to derive the first partial derivative with respect to x.

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I have the next function: z^3-2xz+y=0 and I want to find taylor expansion of z(x,y) at the point (1,1,1), obviously I need to define F(x,y,z) as above and use the implicit function theorem to calculate the derivatives of z(x,y), but I want mathematica to compute this to me.

I tried the Series command but I don't know how to use such that it will use the implicit function theorem in the computation.

Any help?

Thanks, I tried looking at the documentation of Mathematica but didn't find anything about taylor expansion of implicit functions.
 
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I think you're going to have to write a routine for that. I can show you how to get the first partial with respect to x. Do the same for y, then iterate:

Code:
myFunction = z[x, y]^3 - 2 x z[x, y] + y == 0
myd = D[myFunction, x]
myx1 = First[D[z[x, y], x] /. Solve[myd, D[z[x, y], x]]]
 

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