Function application without parentheses
It's sometimes OK to write a function name followed by its argument, without any parentheses. Because there's there is no function application symbol, this can look like a multiplication.
This is an example of juxtaposition means combine in the obvious way.
This is most usually done with the trigonometric functions and logarithms, e.g.
\[ \sin \theta, \ln x \]
So is it only OK to omit the parentheses for well-known functions? Or is it for any function whose name is longer than one letter? Christian Lawson-Perfect asked[1][2], and got mixed responses.
Deyan Ginev searched for occurrences of f x in arXiv papers[3] and found about 7,000 papers containing that pattern, but a quick glance didn't turn up any where \(f x\) was unambiguously intended to mean "the application of the function \(f\) to \(x\)".
