On a family of curious integrals suggested by Stellar Dynamics
Classical Analysis and ODEs
2019-12-02 v2
Abstract
While investigating the properties of a galaxy model used in Stellar Dynamics, a curious integral identity was discovered. For a special value of a parameter, the identity reduces to a definite integral with a very simple symbolic value; but, quite surprisingly, all the consulted tables of integrals, and computer algebra systems, do not seem aware of this result. Here I show that this result is a special case ( and ) of the following identity (established by elementary methods): where , and is the complete elliptic integral of first kind.
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@article{arxiv.1911.10480,
title = {On a family of curious integrals suggested by Stellar Dynamics},
author = {Luca Ciotti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.10480},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
4 pages, no figures - Corrected a typo in eq. (8)