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Re: Problem with NIntegrte

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  • Subject: [mg47732] Re: Problem with NIntegrte
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 04:15:29 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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  • Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
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Hi,

try 

NIntegrate[y,{x,-Infinity,0},Method->Oscillatory]

and be surprised.

Seems a bug in the "Oscillatory" method.

Regards
  Jens


Joel Storch wrote:
> 
> y=BesselJ[0,x]/Sqrt[1+x^2]
> 
> Integrate[y,{x,-Infinity,Infimity}] yields
>   2 BesselI[0,1/2] BesselK[0,1/2] (1.966)
> 
> 2 NIntegrate[y,{x,0,Infinity},Method->Oscillatory] gives 1.966
> (the integrand is an even function)
> 
> However,
> NIntegrate[y,{x,-Infinity,Infinity},Method->Oscillatory] gives
> 0.00044788
> 
> (Mathematica V5.1)


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