I am interested this type integrals. Let
$$
I(\alpha):=\int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{\arctan\left ( \alpha
(x-\operatorname{arsinh} x) \right ) }{x\sqrt{1+x^2} }\text{d}x.
$$
For example, some simple calculations showed that
$$
I\left ( \frac{1}{\pi} \right )=-\pi\ln\left ( \frac{\sqrt{\pi} }{2} \right ).
$$
My Question is:
Are there any extended results about $I(\alpha)$? Any suggestion would be appreciated.
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2Hint:- $$\frac{d}{dx}arsinh(x)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+1}}$$ – RAHUL Nov 01 '21 at 12:11
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2This just seems to be a variant of Integral $\int_1^\infty\frac{\operatorname{arccot}\left(1+\frac{2\pi}{\operatorname{arcoth}x-\operatorname{arccsc}x}\right)}{\sqrt{x^2-1}}\mathrm dx$. Please include your attempts (for instance, how you proved the result for $I(1/\pi)$). – TheSimpliFire Nov 01 '21 at 14:00
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Well after differentiation under integral sign, I obtained that if we know the value of $$\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{1+(\alpha)^{2}(sinh(u)-u)^{2}}du$$ then we can easily evaluate the Integral. – RAHUL Nov 01 '21 at 16:00
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@RAHUL You probably didn't do the differentiation correctly. Check it out. – Laxmi Narayan Bhandari Nov 01 '21 at 16:40
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@Laxmi Narayan Bhandari, I didn't differentiate $I(\alpha)$ directly. I substituted $x=sinh(u)$ then performed the differentiation, it will lead to same formula that I mentioned. – RAHUL Nov 01 '21 at 16:49
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@RAHUL Following your steps, I got $$I'(\alpha) = \int_0^\infty\frac{\sinh u-u}{\sinh u(1+\alpha^2(\sinh u-u)^2)}, du$$ – Laxmi Narayan Bhandari Nov 02 '21 at 07:36
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Yes, now split $\frac{\sinh u-u}{\sinh u(1+a^2(\sinh u-u)^2)}$ and notice that $sinh(u)$ terms cancel each other, we get two Integrals. If we know the value of atleast one then we can calculate the entire value by adding and subtracting it once again. – RAHUL Nov 02 '21 at 07:40
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@Laxmi Narayan Bhandari, I already posted this question yesterday on math overflow. The answers were that, the integral doesn't have a closed form. – RAHUL Nov 02 '21 at 07:41
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@RAHUL Thanks for the info. Can you please give me the link of the post? – Laxmi Narayan Bhandari Nov 02 '21 at 07:45
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Let us continue this discussion in chat. – RAHUL Nov 02 '21 at 07:46
1 Answers
I am very close to solution, but not exactly. Let, $$I(t)=\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{\arctan(\alpha(xt-\operatorname{arsinh} x))}{x\sqrt{x^2+1}}$$ Do substitution, $$u=\operatorname{arsinh}x\implies du=\frac{dx}{\sqrt{1+x^2}}dx$$ $$I(t)=\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{\arctan(\alpha(t\sinh u-u))}{\sinh u}du$$ Now differentiate on both sides wrt $t$ $$I'(t)=\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{\operatorname{csch}u}{1+(\alpha)^{2}(t\sinh u-u)^{2}}\alpha \sinh u du$$ Notice that $\sinh u$ and $\operatorname{csch} u$ cancels off each other. $$I'(t)=\alpha \int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{1+(\alpha)^{2}(t\sinh u-u)^{2}}du$$ Now I am stuck here. The integral is simplified to some extent. But I have no clue what to do next. I tried to make use of $\frac{1}{1-x}=\sum_{k\ge 0}x^{k}, |x|<1$. But using that brings us to something inside the integral which doesn't have an anti-derivative. And also if we can do the substitution $q=t\sinh u-u$ then I think something can be done. But, it's derivative is $t\cosh u-1$ which I am unable to express in terms of $q$.
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@Laxmi Narayan Bhandari, let me know your opinion on my answer. I meant by how to continue solving it. – RAHUL Nov 06 '21 at 14:46