subequation in tabular

Question

I am trying to number two equations at the same line as subequation.

My problem seems to be due to case environment, since if i comment the case environment, the problem disappears.

Here is a short example of my code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
 \begin{subequations}
  \begin{tabular}{@{}*{2}{m{0.4\linewidth}}@{}}
   \begin{align}
      \Theta[n] = \begin{cases}
                0, & n < 0, \\
                1, & n \ge 0, 
              \end{cases}
   \end{align} &
   \begin{align}
     m_{ij}^{det} = \left|\Delta_{ij}\right|
   \end{align}
  \end{tabular}
 \end{subequations}                           
\end{document}

Answer 1

This works:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,array}

\begin{document}

\begin{subequations}
\noindent\begin{tabular}{@{}*{2}{m{0.5\linewidth}@{}}}
\begin{equation}
  \Theta[n] = \begin{cases}
                0, & n < 0, \\
                1, & n \ge 0,
              \end{cases}
\end{equation} &
\begin{equation}
  m_{ij}^{\det} = \left|\Delta_{ij}\right|
\end{equation}
\end{tabular}
\end{subequations}

\end{document}

Notice the slight changes: I gave half of the linewidth to both equations, removing all intercolumn spaces (and said \noindent).

The det at the exponent should be in roman type, as it's not the product of three variables, but an abbreviation. The \det operator is handy, in other cases it should be \textup{...}.

It would have worked also with align, provided you put the cases environment in a pair of braces (the & confuses LaTeX), but align is wrong when no alignment is done.