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- From: israel@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert B. Israel)
- Subject: Re: algo. determining closed form integral from c.f. function
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- In <5115QKM@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> polani@Informatik.Mathematik.Uni-Mainz.DE (Daniel Polani) writes:
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- >In article <4699@balrog.ctron.com>, wilson@ctron.com (David Wilson) writes:
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- > It occurs to me that there is an algorithm for determining if a closed-form
- > function has a closed-form integral. Would a varition of this algorithm
- > apply to the grazing goat equation?
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- >An algorithm which was said to do this, I have been told, has been devised by
- >Risch (sorry, I cannot be more precise) based on an idea of Liouville from the
- >last century. That's all I know.
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- >Does anybody know the general idea used by this (or a similar) algorithm ?
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- >--
- >Daniel Polani - polani@informatik.mathematik.uni-mainz.de
-
- See the following book for part of the algorithm:
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- AUTHOR: Davenport, James Harold, 1953-
- TITLE: On the integration of algebraic functions / James Harold
- Davenport. --
- CALL NO: QA 341 D33 1981
- PUBLISHED: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1981.
- DESCRIPTION: 197 p. ; 25 cm. -- Bibliography: p. [186]-197.
- SERIES: Lecture notes in computer science ; 102
-
- As of 1981, there were cases (mixed algebraic and transcendental functions)
- which did not have a complete algorithm.
-
- The basic idea is, in a way, a development of the "method of undetermined
- coefficients". You prove that if a closed-form integral exists, it has
- a certain basic form, then examine functions of that form to see if any
- can have the given function as derivative. For example, as a consequence
- of one of Liouville's results, if f(x) exp(g(x)) has a closed-form
- integral, where f(x) and g(x) are rational functions and g(x) is not
- constant, then that integral must be of the form p(x) exp(g(x)) + C,
- where p(x) is a rational function.
- --
- Robert Israel israel@math.ubc.ca
- Department of Mathematics or israel@unixg.ubc.ca
- University of British Columbia
- Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Y4
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