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Re: a complex function appears in a real integration

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  • Subject: [mg34011] Re: a complex function appears in a real integration
  • From: Hendrik van Hees <hees at physik.uni-bielefeld.de>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 03:27:39 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Uni Bielefeld
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Shaofeng Bian wrote:


> Hopefully, colleagues who have such experiences can give me some tips
> and a definite answer.

There is only one definite answer at place here. Be very (really very) 
careful with any result of Integrate, especially if you do a definite 
integral. If there are functions involved with branch cuts (in the 
integrand as well as in the result) it is quite probable that Mathematica 
puts it on the wrong sheet of the Riemann plane. One day I supported this 
to Wolfram Research as a bug. They never could convince me that it is a 
feature ;-).

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