Abstract
Many formulas of improper integrals are shown every day and need to be solved in different areas of science and engineering. Some of them can be solved, and others require approximate solutions or computer software. The main purpose of this research is to present new fundamental theorems of improper integrals that generate new formulas and tables of integrals. We present six main theorems with associated remarks that can be viewed as generalizations of Cauchy’s results and I.S. Gradshteyn integral tables. Applications to difficult problems are presented that cannot be solved with the usual techniques of residue or contour theorems. The solutions of these applications can be obtained directly, depending on the proposed theorems with an appropriate choice of functions and parameters.
Keywords:
improper integrals; power series; analytic function; Cauchy residue theorem; Ramanujan’s principal theorem; integral equation MSC:
44A20; 40G99
1. Introduction
In recent decades, many improper integrals have emerged in various fields of science, physics, and engineering [,,,,], and these integrals are very important when dealing with mathematical applications. Therefore, many mathematicians try to discover new theorems and techniques to calculate them. The importance of these integrals arose because of their application in applied mathematical physics, electrical engineering, etc. [,,,,,]. Some of these integrations can be solved directly, and others require long and hard calculations. Some of these integrals cannot be solved manually and need computer software such as Mathematica and Maple to be solved. In addition, sometimes numerical methods can be used to solve some improper integrals that cannot be solved using previous methods [,,,,,,].
The evaluation of improper integrals is a process that does not depend on any specific rules or techniques that can be applied directly. Many methods and theorems have been introduced and implemented by mathematicians and researchers to present a closed expression for indefinite integrals, such as the technique of double integrals, series methods, residual theorem, calculus under the integral sign, and other methods that are used to exactly or approximately solve improper complex integrals (see [,,,,]).
In recent years, many researchers have investigated new theorems to compute improper integrals. The first was the residue theorem, which was introduced by Cauchy in 1826, and it is considered as one of the most powerful tools in computing improper and contour integrals. Many other researchers have studied improper integrals such as Ramanujan who presented Ramanujan’s master theorem [,,], which gives expressions for the Mellin transform of any continuous analytic function in terms of its Taylor expansion. The study of the application of such integrals has continued and appeared in solving integral equations, integral transforms, fractional calculus, and differential equations as well as other applications that include the procedure of computing integrals (see [,,,]).
The proposed results in this work are applicable to solving and generating some families of improper integrals and integral transforms. The main goal of this work is to simplify the procedure of computing improper integrals that might take a long time and effort to solve or that cannot be solved manually. The outcomes of this study can be generalized and stated in tables to compute some difficult integrals directly without the need to find contours or factorize, etc. We simply choose the suitable functions and generate a large number of integrals.
In this research, we introduce new theorems about improper integrals with proof. Each theorem can generate new formulas of improper integrals that cannot be handled by conventional methods or that require time and effort to obtain results. The proposed theorems present the solutions of improper integrals directly in a simple finite sum that depends on the target problem. The motivation of this work is to generate new problems involving improper integrals and their solutions that can be used in various physical and engineering applications. The theorems obtained can be implemented to produce integration tables, which can be used to help researchers calculate difficult problems that may arise during their research or to study new approximation methods for solving improper integrals. They may check the accuracy of their answers using these tables.
This article is organized as follows. We present some basic definitions and theorems essential to our work in Section 2. Six main theorems are presented in Section 3 with some related results. Some remarks and applications are presented in Section 4. Finally, the conclusion of our research is presented in Section 5.
2. Preliminaries
To understand our new theorems, we introduce some basic definitions and theorems that are needed in our work.
Definition 1.
[] Let be an analytic function in an open set , and is a disc centered at ; whose closure is contained in , then has a power series expansion at .
Definition 2.
[] Let be a real analytic function that is infinitely differentiable, such that the Taylor series at any point in the domain is
Definition 3.
[] The Cauchy principal value of a finite integral of a function about a point , with , is given by
Lemma 1.
De Moivre’s factorization formula [], which can be considered a more general formula expressible in a modern form than Cotes–Newton factorization, is obtained by
Lemma 2.
[,] The partial fractions of , where and are positive integers, and are of the form
Putting in Lemma 2, we obtain the following result.
Corollary 1.
Let and be positive integers, where , then we obtain
Lemma 3.
Let and be positive integers, where and . Then, the partial fractions of has the form
Proof of Lemma 3.
Let . Then, using de Moivre’s theorem, we obtain
are factors of , and the other factors are given as products of conjugate factors. Therefore, we obtain
We use Equation (8) to find the partial fractions as follows
Let in Equation (9). Then, we obtain
We use the Euler approach in [] to find D, , and to obtain
Substituting the values of in (10), we obtain
The proof is completed. □
3. Fundamental Theorems
In this section, we introduce six new theorems for solving improper integrals. These theorems can be used to generate new integrals and solve difficult applications. These theories are considered as generalizations of the master theorems found in []. The difficulty of generalizing these results lies in the partial fractions mentioned in Lemmas 1–3, in addition to the idea of merging the theorems used in the previous research with these lemmas and finding the integrals in Appendix A.
To achieve our goal, we need to present some results concerning analytic functions. For more details, see [,,].
Let be an analytic function around , then, according to Taylor’s series where and denote positive or negative real quantities, we obtain
Using Euler formulas
we can gain
Similarly,
In the following arguments, we present new theorems to solve improper integrals that can be used in solving various applications. It is worth mentioning here that these theorems can be considered as generalizations of Cauchy’s results [].
Theorem 1.
Let be an analytic function around , where . Then, we obtain the following result
Proof of Theorem 1.
To obtain our result, we need the following fact.
Consider
Differentiating with respect to , times, we obtain the following
After simple computations and substituting in Equation (15), we obtain
Now,
Letting in Equation (16), we obtain
Now, since is an analytic around , we obtain
Substituting Equation (18) into Equation (17), we obtain
Therefore, by changing the order of the summation and the improper integral and using Fubini’s theorem, Equation (19) becomes
To simplify the calculations, let in Equation (22).
To write Equation (21) in terms of the original function, we must rewrite Equation (22) in the exponential form as follows
Therefore, substituting Equation (23) into Equation (22), Equation (21) becomes
where
Now, using the fact in Equation (12), Equation (25) becomes
where , and .
This completes the proof.
Theorem 2.
Let be an analytic function around , where . Then, we obtain the following result
The proof of Theorem 2 can be obtained by similar arguments to Theorem 1 and using Fact (2) in Appendix A.
Putting in the left-hand side of Theorem 2, with similar arguments to the proof of Theorem 1 and using Fact (3) in Appendix A, we can obtain the following result.
Corollary 2.
Let be an analytic function around , where . Then, we obtain the following result
Theorem 3.
Let be an analytic function around , where . Then, we obtain the following result
Proof of Theorem 3.
Let
Let in Equation (29), then . Therefore, Equation (29) becomes
Now, since is an analytic function around , and using the fact in Equation (13) in Equation (29), we obtain
Therefore, by changing the order of the summation and the improper integral using Fubini’s theorem, we obtain
To simplify the calculations, let in Equation (33), and to rewrite the answer in a closed form of the original function, Equation (33) should be rewritten in the exponential form as
Substituting Equation (34) into Equation (33) with some computations, Equation (32) becomes
where , .
Using the fact in Equation (12), we obtain
where , and .
This completes the proof. □
Theorem 4.
Let be an analytic function around , where . Then, we obtain the following result
The proof of Theorem 4 can be obtained by similar arguments to Theorem 3 and using Fact (5) in Appendix A.
Putting in the left-hand side of Theorem 4, with similar arguments to the proof of Theorem 3 and using Fact (6) in Appendix A, we can obtain the following result.
Corollary 3.
Let be an analytic function around , where . Then we obtain the following result
Theorem 5.
Let be an analytic function around , where . Then, we obtain the following result
Proof of Theorem 5.
Let
Now, since is an analytic function around , we use the fact in Equation (13), and by interchanging the order of the summation and the improper integral, we obtain
Now, by using Equation (7) in Appendix A, we obtain
To simplify the calculations, let in Equation (39).
To write the answer in a closed form of the original function, the internal sum in Equation (39) should be rewritten in the exponential form
where , and .
Now, substituting Equation (40) into Equation (39), we obtain
Now, using the fact in Equation (12), Equation (41) becomes
where , and . Hence, the proof is completed.
Theorem 6.
Let be an analytic function around , where . Then, we obtain the following result
The proof of Theorem 6 can be obtained by similar arguments to Theorem 5 and using the fact (8) in Appendix A.
Putting in the left-hand side of Theorem 6, with similar arguments to the proof of Theorem 5 and using the fact (9) in Appendix A, we obtain the following result.
Corollary 4.
Let be an analytic function around , where . Then, we obtain the following result
4. Applications and Examples
In this section, we present remarks, applications, and comparisons of the proposed theorems. We also show that simple cases of our master theorems are generalizations of some of Cauchy’s results from his memoirs [,].
4.1. Remarks on Theorems
In this section, we introduce some remarks on improper integrals and comparisons with Cauchy’s results. These remarks are illustrated in the following Table 1.
Table 1.
Remarks on improper integrals, where .
4.2. Generating Improper Integrals
In this section, we present the technique of generating an infinite number of integrals using the theorems by only choosing the function and finding the real or imaginary part. It is worth mentioning that many of these integrals with particular cases appear in [,,,] when solving some applications referred to in finding Green’s function, integral representations of the Mittag–Leffler function on the positive real axis, wave motion in elastic solids, and implementing Fourier cosine and Fourier sine transforms.
To demonstrate the idea, we show some general examples that are applied to Theorems (1) and (2) as follows.
- 1.
- Setting
- Using Theorem (1) and setting , we obtain
Therefore,
- where , .
- Setting , the obtained integral is a Fourier cosine transform [] of the function . where , m.
- This can be used as an integral representation of the Mittag–Leffler function on the positive real axis (see []).
- Using Theorem (2) and setting , we obtain
Therefore,
- where , .
- Setting = 1, the obtained integral is a Fourier sine transform [,] of the function . where , m is even, .
- This can be used as an integral representation of the Mittag–Leffler function on the positive real axis (see []).
- 2.
- Setting
- Using Theorem (1), we obtain
Therefore,
where , m is odd,
- Using Theorem (2), we obtain
Thus,
- where , m is even,
- Setting , we obtain
- 3.
- Setting
- Using Theorem (1), we obtain
Thus,
- where , m is odd,
- Using Theorem (2), we obtain
Thus,
where , m is even,
- 4.
- Setting
- Using Theorem 1, we obtain
Thus,
- 5.
- Setting
- Using Theorem 1, we obtain
- Thus,
- Setting we obtain
Thus,
4.3. Solving Improper Integrals
In this section, we introduce examples of some complicated integrals that cannot be easily solved using familiar methods or that may take effort and time to be solved.
We show that using the new results in this article, the solution can be directly determined; it is worth noting that Mathematica and Maple could not solve similar examples.
Example 1.
Evaluate the following integral
Solution.
Using Theorem 1, let , , , , , and setting .
Thus, we obtain
where
Taking the derivative for with respect to , we obtain
Therefore,
Example 2.
Evaluate the following integral
Solution.
Using Theorem 2, taking , and letting , we obtain
Therefore,
where
where
5. Conclusions
The main purpose of this work is to generate new formulas of improper integrals and implement them in solving problems. In this article, we introduced new master theorems of improper integrals. Tables were established to present and generate new formulas of improper integrals. Comparisons with previous results were made and introduced in tables. Finally, various applications on difficult problems were presented and solved using the theorems.
In the future, we will use these new results to solve ordinary differential equations and integral equations.
Author Contributions
Formal analysis, M.A.-G., R.S. and A.Q.; investigation, A.Q., R.S. and M.A.-G., data curation, M.A.-G., R.S. and A.Q.; methodology, A.Q., R.S. and M.A.-G.; writing—original draft, A.Q., R.S. and M.A.-G.; project administration, A.Q., R.S. and M.A.-G.; resources, R.S., M.A.-G. and A.Q.; writing—review and editing, R.S., M.A.-G. and A.Q. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Acknowledgments
The authors express their gratitude to the dear referees, who wish to remain anonymous and the editor for their helpful suggestions, which improved the final version of this paper.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Appendix A
Table A1.
Formulas of improper integrals.
Table A1.
Formulas of improper integrals.
| Conditions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | be odd, , and | ||
| 2. | is odd, , and | ||
| 3. | , | ||
| 4. | be odd, and | ||
| 5. | be odd, and | ||
| 6. | |||
| 7. | and is odd | ||
| 8. | is odd, and | ||
| 9. |
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