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Certain Integrals Arising from Ramanujan's Notebooks

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2015-10-15 v3

Abstract

In his third notebook, Ramanujan claims that 0cos(nx)x2+1logxdx+π20sin(nx)x2+1dx=0. \int_0^\infty \frac{\cos(nx)}{x^2+1} \log x \,\mathrm{d} x + \frac{\pi}{2} \int_0^\infty \frac{\sin(nx)}{x^2+1} \mathrm{d} x = 0. In a following cryptic line, which only became visible in a recent reproduction of Ramanujan's notebooks, Ramanujan indicates that a similar relation exists if logx\log x were replaced by log2x\log^2x in the first integral and logx\log x were inserted in the integrand of the second integral. One of the goals of the present paper is to prove this claim by contour integration. We further establish general theorems similarly relating large classes of infinite integrals and illustrate these by several examples.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1509.00886,
  title  = {Certain Integrals Arising from Ramanujan's Notebooks},
  author = {Bruce C. Berndt and Armin Straub},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.00886},
  year   = {2015}
}
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