Vol. 11 (2005)
Articles

An elementary evaluation of a quartic integral

George Boros
Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans LA, USA
Victor H. Moll
Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans LA, USA
Sarah Riley
Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Published 2005-05-07

Keywords

  • integrals,
  • rational functions

How to Cite

An elementary evaluation of a quartic integral. (2005). Scientia Series A: Mathematical Sciences, 11, 1-12. https://revistas.usm.cl/scientia/article/view/51

Abstract

We provide an elementary evaluation for the integral

\[N_{0.4}(a; m) = \int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{dx}{(x^4 + 2ax^2 + 1)^{m+1}}\]

where \(m \in \mathbb{N}  and  a \in (-1, \infty)\)

\[N_{0.4}(a; m) = \frac{2^{m+3/2}}{(a+1)^{m+1/2}}\pi P_m(a)\]

\({for } P_m(a) \text{ a polynomial in } a.\)

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