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Re: Difficult antiderivative

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  • Subject: [mg128853] Re: Difficult antiderivative
  • From: Roland Franzius <roland.franzius at uos.de>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:58:25 -0500 (EST)
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Am 28.11.2012 09:26, schrieb Brambilla Roberto Luigi (RSE):
> Using Mathematica (v5.1 to v.8) it is possible to obtain (in few
> seconds) the following antiderivative
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> (1)  Integrate[ x ArcCosh[a/x]/Sqrt[r^2-x^2],x]
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> (a rather lengthy expression).
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> It happens that I need
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> (2)  Integrate[ ArcCosh[a/x]/Sqrt[r^2-x^2],x]

> or equivalently
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> (3)  Integrate[ x^2  ArcCosh[a/x]/Sqrt[r^2-x^2],x]

> I have tried a lot of tricks (by part integration etc..) but I was not
> able to find it.
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> Q.: may be that the antiderivative does not exist?
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> The numerical integral  (b<r<a)
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> NIntegrate[ ArcCosh[a/x]/Sqrt[r^2-x^2],{x,b,r}]
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> Don't give any problem.


x/Sqrt[a-x^2 ] is a simple derivative of Sqrt[a-x^2].

Substitutuing x-> a/Cosh[u], with the right assumptions about r>x>0,  I 
get an expression with Logs and Polylogs. But itd to tedious to check it 
by resubstitution and FullSimplifying the derivative.

A crucial point is to replace
Sqrt[r^2- a^2/Cosh[u]^2 ] -> Sqrt[q^2 Cosh[u]^2-1]
in order to get a managable expression.

-- 

Roland Franzius



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