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Hilariously hideous integrals
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Posted 2020-07-23, 06:27 PM
I got this idea from an integral on Wikipedia:



This integral is quite difficult to solve with standard techniques from elementary calculus. Instead, the usual approach is to rewrite it as , then evaluate it as a contour integral by using the following contour that surrounds the pole :



The point of this approach is that it leaves the other pole outside the nice semicircle contour no matter the value of a, which lets you convert the problem into a "simple" calculation of limits (e.g. by using the residue theorem). Compared to integration, the calculation of limits is a relatively algorithmic process that usually works without any "art".

So I figured, why not add more poles to the lower half-plane? After all, this shouldn't affect the contour, and you should still be able to use the residue theorem on a single pole. In other words, you should, at least in principle, still be able to find exact solutions to such integrals by calculating a finite number of limits, even if they might be somewhat... messy.

Well, as far as I can tell, they are. I played around a bit with this one:



Obviously has a single pole in the upper half-plane, and its remaining poles in the lower half-plane.

Apparently I failed to evaluate any such integrals (except ) manually, but Mathematica returned some... interesting results for n=1 and n=2 after half an hour or so:






Have you seen any other particularly hideous integrals?
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