Re: Please help with a Hypergeometric2F1 problem...
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- Subject: [mg23252] Re: Please help with a Hypergeometric2F1 problem...
- From: Ronald Bruck <bruck at math.usc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 22:04:57 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Univ of Southern California
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In article <8e3b5h$kom at smc.vnet.net>, zeno at magicnet.net wrote:
> I symbolically integrated the function..(x^2*(x-1))^(1/3) with respect to
> x.
>
> There is in the answer... Hypergeometric2F1[2/3,2/3,5/3,x]
>
> I can do nothing more with that..it just returns it. A Hypergeometric2F1
> with different parameters like Hypergeometric2F1[2,2,5,x] gives an
> answer. I
> am using version 3. Is Mathematica unable to compute it?
>
> I can get the Integral with out the Hypergeometric function on the
> TI-92+,
> (it gives the answer in a different for using Tan, etc.) but I still
> would
> like to work with the Mathematica answer.
>
zeno e-mailed me the TI-92+ solution, which translated to Mathematica is
Log[(((x - 1)^(1/3) - x^(1/3))^2/((x*(x - 1))^(1/3) + (x - 1)^(2/3) +
x^(2/3)))]/18 -
Sqrt[3]*ArcTan[Sqrt[3]*(2*(x - 1)^(1/3) + x^(1/3)) /(3*x^(1/3))]/9 +
x^(2/3)*(x - 1)^(4/3)/2 + x^(2/3)*(x - 1)^(1/3)/3
(I've removed a couple of Abs from the expression, since Mathematica
doesn't like to differentiate these; as phrased, it's valid for x >= 1).
I am **impressed**. While I am unable to coax Mathematica to
differentiate this with respect to x and simplify the derivative to the
original expression, when I plot the difference on [1,2] all I get is
the typical roundoff noise. It seems to be correct.
--Ron Bruck
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