How to solve this improper integral?
02-08-2015, 11:29 AM (This post was last modified: 02-08-2015 11:33 AM by salvomic.)
Post: #1
 salvomic Senior Member Posts: 1,394 Joined: Jan 2015
How to solve this improper integral?
hi,
I need to solve this improper integral
$\int_{0}^{\infty}{\frac{x^{a}}{x^{2}+1} dx}$
with -1 < a < 1
I try to use limit r->\infty and bound integral from 0 to r, but it give the symbolic form of the integral, without calculation...
The integral should be $$\frac{\frac{pi}{2}}{cos(\frac{pi*a}{2})}$$

Is it possible in Prime?

Thanks!

Salvo

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02-08-2015, 02:58 PM
Post: #2
 parisse Senior Member Posts: 1,203 Joined: Dec 2013
RE: How to solve this improper integral?
No (at least not yet!).
02-08-2015, 03:48 PM
Post: #3
 salvomic Senior Member Posts: 1,394 Joined: Jan 2015
RE: How to solve this improper integral?
(02-08-2015 02:58 PM)parisse Wrote:  No (at least not yet!).

thank you for info!

I tried to solve it giving some arbitrary values:
ex.:
a=½ I get in Terminal "Rational unvariate representation is not certified, set proba_epsilon:=0 to certify...", then "Unable to handle singularities..."
If I put epsilon to 0 Terminal says "warning, solution does not seem to cancel c_4^2-taylorx1", then the same error...
a=1/9 I get infinity
a=¼ Terminal says "Warning Algebraic extension not implemented yet for poly [-1,0,2312,39304,167042]" (repeated with other values), then the result (½)*pi*\sqrt(-\sqrt(2)*2+4)
a=⅓ the result is pi/\sqrt(3)

and in fact those are not the solution

Ok, I mustn't oblige the Prime to give more ;-)

Salvo

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02-09-2015, 08:10 AM
Post: #4
 parisse Senior Member Posts: 1,203 Joined: Dec 2013
RE: How to solve this improper integral?
I get errors with Xcas:
for 1/2 "Unable to handle singularities of 2*((sqrt(2)*ln(x-sqrt(2)*sqrt(x)+1))/8+(sqrt(2)*atan((sqrt(x)-(sqrt(2))/2)/sqrt(2)*2))/4-(sqrt(2)*ln(x+sqrt(2)*sqrt(x)+1))/8+(sqrt(2)*atan((sqrt(x)+(sqrt(2))/2)/sqrt(2)*2))/4) at [undef]"
I did not try on the emulator, but error handling is poor on the Prime, perhaps it is not returned to the user.
You can get the value of the integral by adding int(x^a/(1+x^2),x,-inf,0), replace -inf and inf by R large, add the upper half-circle integral of radius R and apply residue theorem, then take the limit as R->inf.
You can check for a=1/2 or a=1/3 like this
assume(t>0); simplify(eval(subst('int(x^(1/3)/(x^2+1),x,0,inf)',x=t^3)))
02-09-2015, 08:33 AM
Post: #5
 salvomic Senior Member Posts: 1,394 Joined: Jan 2015
RE: How to solve this improper integral?
(02-09-2015 08:10 AM)parisse Wrote:  ...
You can get the value of the integral by adding int(x^a/(1+x^2),x,-inf,0), replace -inf and inf by R large, add the upper half-circle integral of radius R and apply residue theorem, then take the limit as R->inf.
You can check for a=1/2 or a=1/3 like this
assume(t>0); simplify(eval(subst('int(x^(1/3)/(x^2+1),x,0,inf)',x=t^3)))

yes, thank you!
ir works well.
I'm trying to memorize this method, it's so useful.

Have a nice day

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