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Are we better in computing integrals than mathematicians of 19th century?

When I started to learn mathematics, I was fascinating by legendary «Демидович»: problems in mathematical analysis. Fifteen years later, when I open chapters about integrals, I see a long list of ...
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A multiple integral

Let us consider the multiple integral $$I_{n}=\int_{-\infty }^{\infty }ds_{1}\int_{-\infty}^{s_{1}}ds_{2}\cdots \int_{-\infty }^{s_{2n-1}}ds_{2n}\;\cos {(s_{1}^{2}-s_{2}^{2})}\;\cdots \cos {(s_{2n-1}...
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Fundamental Theorem of Algebra via multiple integrals

Consider the product of complex linear monic polynomials times polynomials of degree less than $n$, that is $\big( (z-\lambda), p(z)\big)\mapsto (z-\lambda)p(z)$. If we represent a polynomial by its ...
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Reference request for Grothendieck's work on "Integration with values in a topological group"

Disclaimer. This question was already asked in Mathematics Stack Exchange (see the link here). I wanted the question to be migrated here but I was told by a moderator that a question that old is ...
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Reference for a proof of the fiberwise Stokes theorem

The fiberwise Stokes theorem says that given a differential form on a smooth fiber bundle whose fibers have boundary, the difference between the fiberwise integral of the differential and the ...
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The perturbation of non-Hamiltonian algebraic vector fields

In this question, we are interested in the number of limit cycles which appears in the following perturbational system: \begin{equation}\cases{ x'=y -x^{2}+\epsilon P(x,y) \\ y'=-x+\epsilon Q(x,y) } \...
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Is it possible that the following integral is $0$?

Given any integer $n\geqslant1$, let $E,F$ be two subsets of $\{\{i,j\}:1\leqslant i<j\leqslant n\}$ such that every two sets in $F$ are disjoint. It is not difficult to see that $$\int_{1<|z|&...
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A function with unexpectedly simple Legendre transformation

Let $I(x) = \frac{1}{2\pi} \int_{-2}^2 \sqrt{4-y^2}\ln|x-y|dy$. Then $I(x)$ is a concave function and \begin{equation} I(x)= \begin{cases} \frac{1}{4}x^2-\frac{1}{2}, &\text{if } |x|\leq2 \\ \...
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Symmetry of function defined by integral

(Originally posed in Math.SE in Jan 2013. Received no complete answers as of yet.) Define a function $f(\alpha, \beta)$, $\alpha \in (-1,1)$, $\beta \in (-1,1)$ as $$ f(\alpha, \beta) = \int_0^{\...
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Assymptotics of a Selberg type integral

Does any one know some references/ ideas on how to study the assymptotics as $N$ goes to $\infty$ of the following Selberg type integral $$\int _{\mathbb R^N} e^{-|x|^2}\ \prod_{1\le i<j\le N} \...
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How complicated can an elementary antiderivative get?

I asked this question on MSE here. I recently learned that there are many very large numbers that have been defined, such as $\operatorname{TREE}(3)$ and many others that are too big to be written ...
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On the conditions of convergence in the generalized Riemann-Lebesgue lemma

I am reposting the following question that I asked in the MSE site here. As I mentioned there, The following generalizations of the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma are rather well known (Kahane, C. S., ...
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Reference request : Grothendieck's topological space valued integral

As I am learning the different kind of Banach space valued integrals (Pettis, Bochner), I know that Grothendieck made a "mémoire" in his youth about this topic, but I don't know if it is available ...
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Is there a real-analytic approach to evaluate a definite integral (with an elementary integrand) whose value involves Lambert $W$?

I have never seen a real-analytic approach to evaluate integrals of the form below $$\int_a^b\text{elementary function}(x)\,dx=\text{constant non-trivially involving}\,W(\cdot)\tag1$$ The elementary ...
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The many theories of integration

Diclaimer: In what follows, I will be loose in the usage of terminology since the very nature of the question is of a similar flavour. In the mathematics literature, one can find a zoo of theories of ...
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Integration à la Mirzakhani

Let $$ \gamma = \sum_i c_i \gamma_i $$ be a multi-curve on a hyperbolic surface $S$. For any $f: \mathbb{R}^+ \to \mathbb{R}^+$ one can define $$ f_\gamma (X) = \sum_{\alpha \in \mathrm{Mod} . \gamma} ...
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Henstock–Kurzweil integral for unbounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$

I am working through the textbook Analyse : fondements, techniques, évolution by Jean Mawhin (in French). It was published in 2002 and its main characteristic is to introduce integration to ...
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Hilbert series for invariant ring

I would like to compute the Hilbert series of the ring of invariants of certain irreducible representations of some groups (namely $SO(5)$ to begin with). To put it in some broader context, let $G$ ...
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An integral for the tribonacci constant and the general case

When I asked for integrals involving the tribonacci constant $T$, user @nospoon gave the nice answer, $$\int_0^{\infty} \eta( i \, x)\,\eta(i \,11 x) \,dx = \frac{ \ln T}{\sqrt{11}} $$ However, the ...
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An inequality which involves a sum of integrals

Please help me to prove $$ \sum\limits_{j=2}^n \frac{1}{j^\alpha (j-1)^\alpha} \int\limits_{j-1}^j \frac{dx}{x^{1-\alpha}(n-x)^\alpha} \leq \int\limits_0^1 \frac{dx}{x^{1-\alpha}(n-x)^\alpha},\quad \...
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Minkowski's Inequality for Integrals in Orlicz spaces

EDIT: I have changed the question to have less parameters, fitting it into the context of Orlicz spaces. Suppose $f:[0,\infty)\to[0,\infty)$ is convex and increasing, $f^{-1}:[0,\infty)\to[0,\infty)$...
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Complex beta function $\int_{\mathbb{R}^2} (x^2+y^2)^{\alpha-1}((1-x)^2+y^2)^{\beta-1} \,dx\,dy$

I am interested in showing that the integral \begin{align} & \int_{\mathbb{C}} |z|^{2\alpha-2}|1-z|^{2\beta - 2} \,dA(z) \\[8pt] = {} & \int_{\mathbb{R}^2} (x^2+y^2)^{\alpha-1}((1-x)^2+y^2)^{\...
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Is there a uniform version of Lebesgue's differentiation theorem?

Let $\mu$ be a finite measure on $\mathbb R$ and $f,g : \mathbb R \to \mathbb R_{\geq 0}$ two measurable maps such that $\int_{x\in\mathbb R} f(x)\ \mu(dx) \leq 1$ and that $g(x) \leq 1$ for all $x$. ...
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Double integral $\int \int (\log x) (\log y)/F(x,y) dx dy$: elegant way?

I need to evaluate (or, if that is not feasible, bound well) some integrals of the type $$\mathop{\int \int}_{(x,y)\in U} \frac{\log x \log y}{F(x,y)} dx dy,$$ where $U = \{(x,y)\in [1,\infty)^2: F(x,...
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A kind of reflection formula for the logarithmic derivative of the zeta function

So I was messing around with Bernoulli numbers and values of $\zeta'$ at integers $-$ and suddenly I came about a non trivial identity which can be written in terms of the logarithmic derivative of ...
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What is the expected value of the volume of a tetrahedron inscribed in the unit sphere?

Four (non-coincident) points on the unit sphere determine a tetrahedron. What is the expected value of the volume of such a tetrahedron--the volume of the sphere itself being $\frac{4 \pi}{3} \approx ...
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A reference for an integrability property?

In a recent paper of mine (Compensated integrability), I established a functional inequality which has nice consequences. For instance, it contains the isoperimetric inequality, and it gives a new ...
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Evaluating $\iint_{\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^{+}}e^{-|w-c_{1}|^2-|u-c_{2}|^2}\frac{1}{w_{1}+iw_{2}-u_{1}-iu_{2}}dw_{1}dw_{2}du_{1}du_{2}$

For $c_{1},c_{2}\in \mathbb{H}:=\{Im(z)>0\}$ I want to compute the following integral or prove it doesn't exist: $$\int_{\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^{+}}\int_{\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^{+}}e^{-|...
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Area of generalized ellipse

An ellipse $E$ can be defined by two foci, $p,q\in\mathbb{R}^2$, and a length parameter $\ell$ as follows: $$ E = \{x\in\mathbb{R}^2 : ||p-x||+||q-x||\le\ell \}.$$ The area of $E$ is uniquely ...
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Integral-like concepts

I am looking for interesting concepts (I guess you could say functionals from the function space $[a;b]\to\mathbb R$) that are like integrals in some respect. The background is that I have proven a ...
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Interchange of integral and infimum

Can anyone please suggest how to justify widely used formula for interchange of integral and infimum: $ \inf_{u(t)\in U}\int_{t_0}^{t_1}g(t,u(t))dt=\int_{t_0}^{t_1}\inf_{u\in U}g(t,u)dt, $ where $ U\...
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Integral identity related with cubic analogue of arithmetic-geometric mean

This is re-post from MSE as I did not get an answer there. Let $a,b$ be positive real numbers and we define two sequences $\{a_{n}\},\{b_{n}\}$ as follows: $$a_{0}=a,b_{0}=b,a_{n+1}=\frac{a_{n}+2b_{n}...
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How to take this Grassmann integral?

I'm trying to reconstruct and understand what is explained in a paragraph of this paper. I am trying to check if the method they describe actually gives us the Laughlin state. The integral I'm facing ...
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Fourier transforms via Kurzweil-Henstock integral on locally compact commutative groups

Is it possible to define Fourier transforms on locally compact commutative groups using the Kurzweil-Henstock integral instead of the Lebesgue integral?
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Find the area of the region enclosed by $\frac{\sin x}{\sin y}=\frac{\sin x+\sin y}{\sin(x+y)}$ and the $x$-axis

This question resisted attacks at MSE, so I am posting it here. Here is the graph of $\dfrac{\sin x}{\sin y}=\dfrac{\sin x+\sin y}{\sin(x+y)}$. Find the area of the region enclosed by the curve and ...
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How to prove these identities for $\log(2)$ based on $_3F_2$ integrals?

In this MO post I have placed 4 Ramanujan-type hypergeometric series found using the LLL algorithm for fast computing of some logarithms. I could prove 3 of them by means of classical methods based on ...
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Is there a way to solve this integral on the sphere explicitly?

Let $k_{j}\in {\mathbb{Z}}^{+}$ and $\,a_{j}\in \,]0,1[$, be such that $k_{j}\,a_{j}<1$, $j=1,\cdots,n$. Let $f:\mathbb{R}^{n}\rightarrow [0,\infty[$ be defined by the integral $$f(y):=\int_{\...
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Is $\int \operatorname{sn}^2u\,\mathrm du$ really irreducible?

Let $\operatorname{sn}$, $\operatorname{cn}$, $\operatorname{dn}$ be Jacobian elliptic functions (https://dlmf.nist.gov/22). According to Greenhill, The integrals $$\operatorname{sn}^2u,\operatorname{...
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If $\lim_{t\to +\infty} \int_{0}^{\pi} f(x)\exp(e^{xt}) \, dx=0$ then $f=0$ a.e?

Question, Let $f \in L^1(\alpha, \beta)$ , $\beta>0$ and $$ F(x)= \int_{\alpha}^{\beta} f(t)\exp(e^{xt}) \, dt $$ such that $\displaystyle \lim_{x\to +\infty}F(x)=0$. Does this imply that $f$ is ...
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Nature of function as $x\rightarrow\infty$

I'm studying the limits and applicability of Abel Plana summation for different test functions (class of functions). In doing so this just pops out and couldn't handle the said integral so asked here (...
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Extending gauge integral to higher dimensions/spaces and analogue of Riemann rearrangement theorem for it

The gauge/Henstock-Kurzweil integral allows for the integration of a very large set of functions in $\Bbb R$, at the cost of many of the nice properties of Lebesgue integration, of which it is a ...
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Length of the arc of a Fourier series

I'm working modeling the behavior of periodic variable stars and I have a question about reducing the expression of a parameter involved in this analysis. Let $f(t)$ be a Fourier series define as: $$f(...
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More or less universal formula for regularization of divergent integrals?

Is there a simple formula that would produce the regularized value for the most common divergent integrals? I know, there is a formula for Cesaro integration, but it is applicable only to Cesaro-...
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Riesz Representation Theorem for $L^2(\mathbb{R}) \oplus L^2(\mathbb{T})$?

The spaces $L^2(\mathbb{R})$ (square-integrable functions) and $L^2(\mathbb{T})$ (1-periodic square-integrable functions, considered over the real line $\mathbb{R}$) are two subspaces of the space of ...
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Hadamard lemma without integration

Let $I$ be the ideal of smooth germs vanishing at zero. Let $I^{k+1}$ be the ideal generated by $(k+1)$-fold product of such germs. Write $F_k$ for the ideal of $k$-flat germs at zero. By the product ...
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Is there a practical application of natural integral or differintegral?

The following formulas give natural differintegral (that is one with naturally fixed integration constant): $$f^{(s)}(x)=\sum_{m=0}^{\infty} \binom {s}m \sum_{k=0}^m\binom mk(-1)^{m-k}f^{(k)}(x)$$ $$f^...
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Invariant measure on coset space and integrable functions

Let $G$ be a locally compact abelian group, and $H$ a closed subgroup. Let $C_c(G)$ be the space of continuous, compactly supported complex valued functions on $G$. General theory of Haar measure ...
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Remainder term in an integral linked to the Riemann zeta function

Sorry if this is not research level, but the following problem occurs in my own research: it is trivial to show that for $k\ge2$ integral we have $\zeta(k)=(1/(k-1)!)\int_0^\infty t^{k-1}/(e^t-1)\,dt$ ...
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integrating with respect to parameters in beta function

I would like to evaluate an integral: $$\int_t^1\frac{1}{B(1+s\phi,1+\phi(1-s))}p^{s\phi}(1-p)^{\phi(1-s)}ds,$$ where $B(a,b)$ is a beta function and $p\in(0,1)$ and $\phi>0$ are some parameters. ...
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The integral of $\exp(-|x-a|)$ over an even dimensional sphere

I'm after a reference for an integral. For $m$ a positive integer and $R>0$ let $S^{2m}_R\subset \mathbb{R}^{2m+1}$ denote the radius $R$ sphere of dimension $2m$. Suppose that $a$ lies inside ...
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