Re: integral of Bessel function, bug in Mathematica 4.0
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- Subject: [mg25634] Re: integral of Bessel function, bug in Mathematica 4.0
- From: Brian Higgins <bghiggins at ucdavis.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 03:04:52 -0400 (EDT)
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Mathematica 4.0 on a Mac gives the correct answer:
Integrate::"idiv" :
"Integral of x \!\(BesselJ[1, x]\^2\)""does not converge on {0,\!\( \
\*InterpretationBox[\(?\), DirectedInfinity[ 1]]\)}."
Brian
In article <8s175p$ihq at smc.vnet.net>,
"GS" <stupakov at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Here is a bug in Mathematica 4.0
> In[1]:=
> Integrate[BesselJ[1, x]^2 x, {x, 0, Infinity}]
> Out[1]=
> 0
>
> The integral cannot be zero because the integrand is positive.
> Actually, this integral diverges, as is known, and can be checked
> by numerical integration
>
> Gennady.
>
>
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