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- From: cordes@ac.dal.ca (John Cordes)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Re: Help wanted in integration.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.171604.8765@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 17:16:03 -0400
- References: <Nov.6.00.08.18.1992.2647@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <1992Nov10.031024.4001@wri.com>
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- In article <1992Nov10.031024.4001@wri.com>, victor@tuamotu.wri.com (Victor Adamchik) writes:
- > In article <Nov.6.00.08.18.1992.2647@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
- > amarmahb@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Amar Mahboob Ali) writes:
- >>
- >> Hi
- >>
- >> Can anyone please help me in integrating the following.
- >>
- >> infinity
- >>
- >> / 4 2 2
- >> | x sin (Pi a x) sin (Pi b x)
- >> | ---------------------------- dx
- >> | 2 2 2 2 2 2
- >> / (x - d ) (x - c )
- >>
- >> -infinity
- >>
- >>
- >> Where a,b,c and d are positive intergers.
- >>
- >> This function has double poles on the real axis. Hence theorems
- >> related to computing such definite integrals dont seem to help me,
- >> as they allow at the most a simple pole on the real axis. Is there
- >> some other theorem that I can use? I would appretiate the least bit of
- >> help on this.
- >>
- >> I am begining to think that there is no closed form solution.
- >> Please help.
- >>
- >> Thanks
- >>
- >> Amar
-
- I didn't see the original posting, but just wanted to throw in the
- comment that there are _no_ poles on the real axis. The sine functions in
- the numerator vanish (linearly) at integer values of x, thus cancelling the
- vanishing denominators. Contour integration should handle the evaluation of
- your integral without too much difficulty (1st deform the integration
- contour away from the real axis, avoiding the points c,d; then introduce
- the complex exponential forms for the sine functions and expand the
- products in the numerator; close the contour appropriately for the various
- pieces, and do a little residue calculus).
-
- If in fact the integrand _did_ have double poles on the real axis (the
- integration contour) the integral would be divergent. When there are only
- simple poles a finite value can be extracted by the Cauchy principal value
- procedure.
-
- BTW, I haven't done the contour integration outlined above so have no
- particular reason to doubt the solution found using Mathematica as given in
- the next few lines. As I write this, however, inspection of the integral
- posed suggests to me that it should be finite even for c=d, so I am
- suspicious of the answer given.
-
- > I evaluated your integral in the closed form and
- > hope the following answer is a correct for integer a,b,c and d: >
- > if 0 < a <= b then (a*(c^2 + d^2)*Pi^2)/(16*(c^2 - d^2)^2)
- > if 0 < b <= a then (b*(c^2 + d^2)*Pi^2)/(16*(c^2 - d^2)^2)
-
- > I checked numerically (the precision was 6 digits) it for
- > c = 2; d = 1; a = 3; b = 4
- > c = 2; d = 1; a = 7; b = 4
- > and
- > c = 2; d = 4; a = 3; b = 4
- > If you are interested to look at the
- > proof send me email. I have
- > used Mathematica to get that result.
- > Victor Adamchik
- > victor@wri.com
-
-
- John Cordes, Dept. of Physics,
- Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.,
- Canada B3H 3J5 Internet: cordes@ac.dal.ca
-
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