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MonicaMath
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« on: Mar 23rd, 2010, 1:37pm » |
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hello... could anyone help me finding the integral of (1) [ (sin(pi x/2)) / (x^2 - 4) ]^2 and (2) [ (sin(pi x/2)) / (x (x^2 - 4)) ]^2 thanks in advance
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Re: integration
« Reply #1 on: Mar 23rd, 2010, 1:47pm » |
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I very much doubt either of those functions have antiderivatives in elementary functions. You could try to ask about particular definite integrals: for instance, the integral of the first one over the whole real line is pi^2/16; the integral of the second one over the whole real line is 3 pi^2/64. (This is thanks to mathematica). The way to do it by hand is probably via complex analysis, which I'm a bit rusty on.
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Re: integration
« Reply #2 on: Mar 23rd, 2010, 2:57pm » |
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I know that we can evaluate the integral using mathematica or Matlab, but is there any way to do this using some identities, formulas,...etc ?
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Re: integration
« Reply #3 on: Mar 23rd, 2010, 4:39pm » |
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Do you mean evaluate the integral over the whole line? Since the functions don't have elementary antiderivatives, it's not possible to evaluate them using the fundamental theorem of calculus. There won't be simple "formulas" to use. I think you need to use complex analysis; the main tool you need is the residue theorem, but you'll also need to do some real work in the form of error estimates. You should look up a book on complex analysis and find the chapter on evaluating real integrals to see what's involved. As a warm-up, finding the integral of sin(x)/x as x goes from -infty to infty via complex analysis is a good problem. (There are other clever ways to evaluate this integral, but the complex analysis method is probably the easiest)
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Re: integration
« Reply #4 on: Mar 25th, 2010, 10:47am » |
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on Mar 23rd, 2010, 1:37pm, MonicaMath wrote:hello... could anyone help me finding the integral of (1) [(sin(pi x/2)) / (x^2 - 4) ]^2 and (2) [ (sin(pi x/2)) / (x (x^2 - 4)) ]^2 |
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Re: integration
« Reply #5 on: Mar 25th, 2010, 11:13am » |
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I doubt it's sin(n pi/2); for the integral to be finite, we need sin(pi x/2) = 0 when x = +-2.
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Re: integration
« Reply #6 on: Mar 25th, 2010, 11:28am » |
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on Mar 25th, 2010, 11:13am, Obob wrote:I doubt it's sin(n pi/2); for the integral to be finite, we need sin(pi x/2) = 0 when x = +-2. |
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Re: integration
« Reply #7 on: Mar 25th, 2010, 12:20pm » |
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OK, this integral is the standard deviation of the fourier transform of the function g(x) = { (cos(x))^2 , -pi/2<=x<=pi/2 0 , otherwise } which is given by: sigma^2= integral { (s - mean)^2 |g^(s)|^2 ds} (where g^(s) =Fourier transform of g ) / in fact I don't know what the integral bounds should be ??!! /
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Re: integration
« Reply #8 on: Mar 25th, 2010, 4:16pm » |
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What do you mean by the standard deviation of a function whose domain is the entire real line? As far as I know, you can't think of the function as being a random variable without choosing a probability distribution on the real line; on the other hand, you can't think of the function as giving a probability distribution because this function (the Fourier transform of the function in your previous post) is sometimes negative. Admittedly I don't know much about stats, but we should make sure that we're doing something that makes sense.
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Re: integration
« Reply #9 on: Mar 25th, 2010, 7:39pm » |
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sorry, I mean the standard deviation of the distribution defined by p(x)=|g(x)|^2 / ||g||^2 which is defined to be sigma^2= integral { (s - mean)^2 |g^(s)|^2 ds} / ||g^(s)||^2 and I found that the mean=0; mean = integral{ s |g^(s)|^2 ds} / ||g^(s)||^2 (integration is over [-pi/2, pi/2 ] ) where all norms are the L2-norm So, my problem now on how to calculate (1) integral [ (sin(pi x/2)) / (x^2 - 4) ]^2 over the real line and (2) integral [ (sin(pi x/2)) / (x (x^2 - 4)) ]^2 over the real line ?? without using Matlab or mathematica or complex integration ??!
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« Reply #10 on: Mar 25th, 2010, 9:12pm » |
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OK, that clears things up a bit. When you say integration is over [-pi/2,pi/2], I think you mean over the whole real line, though. The only time you integrate over [-pi/2,pi/2] is when finding the Fourier transform, because the function is supported on that interval. But the Fourier transform is supported on the whole line. Having thought about the problem more (and in light of where it comes from) I think complex analysis is the wrong way to go. Instead, we should think of it as trying to calculate L^2 norms of functions. The first integral, for example, can be found as the L^2 norm of sin(pi x/2)/(x^2-4). If we want to find the L^2 norm of this function, we can find the L^2 norm of its Fourier transform instead: the Fourier transform is an isometery of L^2 by the Plancherel theorem. I haven't computed the Fourier transform by hand, but Mathematica suggests it shouldn't be too difficult to compute: it says that the Fourier transform of sin(pi x/2)/(x^2-4) is 1/2 i sqrt(Pi/2) sin(2t) restricted to [-pi/2,pi/2] (make sure to take complex absolute values in the L^2 norm computation, instead of just squaring). It might be easier to start with this function and compute the inverse Fourier transform, which should be sin(pi x/2)/(x^2-4). The L^2 norm squared of this function is pi^2/16. Similarly, the function sin (pi x/2)/(x(x^2-4)) has Fourier transform given by the function -1/2 sqrt(pi/2) cos(t)^2 restricted to [-pi/2,pi/2]. Again the L^2 norm squared computation is easy: it's 3 pi^2/64.
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Re: integration
« Reply #11 on: Mar 26th, 2010, 7:38am » |
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Thank you ... I think this would work ....
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Re: integration
« Reply #12 on: Mar 26th, 2010, 9:57am » |
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In retrospect, there is an even better way to think of this problem. Go back to the function g(t) = cos(t)^2 on [-pi/2,pi/2]. Since g is even, its Fourier transform h(s) = g^(s) is also even. This shows that the mean of the distribution p(s) = |h(s)|^2/||h||^2 is zero. Now for the standard deviation, we need to evaluate the L^2 norm of h and the integral of s^2 |h(s)|^2 ds. For the L^2 norm of h, by Plancherel this is the same thing as the L^2 norm of g. On the other hand, integral( s^2 |h(s)|^2 ds) = integral(|s h(s)|^2 ds) is the L^2 norm squared of sh(s). But recalling that h(s) = g^(s), we are finding the L^2 norm squared of sg^(s). However, recall that multiplication by s after the Fourier transform corresponds to differentiation by t before the transform: precisely, sg^(s) = -i(g'(t))^, so the L^2 norm of sg^(s) equals the L^2 norm of g'(t). Succinctly, then, we have sigma = ||g'||/||g|| = 2/sqrt(3), where the integrals in this last equality could all be done elementarily. Note that this last formula can be used to find the standard deviation of the distribution corresponding to the Fourier transform of any even function g without ever even having to compute said Fourier transform.
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Re: integration
« Reply #13 on: Mar 26th, 2010, 12:03pm » |
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And finally, for a more elementary way: Let's find the integral of (sin(pi x/2)/(x^2-4))^2. We can write 1/(x^2-4)^2 = 1/(16(x-2)^2)+1/(16(x+2)^2)+1/(32(x+2))-1/(32(x-2)), and from here we need to calculate four separate integrals. Two of them are easy: the integrals with 32(x+2) and 32(x-2) in the denominator are both zero, since for instance the function f(x) = sin(pi x/2)/(x-2) satisfies f(2+x) = -f(2-x); f isn't odd, but if we translate the axis so the origin is at 2, then f is odd. The other two integrals are slightly trickier. For the integral of sin(pi x/2)^2/(16(x-2)^2), we make a substitution x = u + 2 and find that it is equivalent to find the integral of sin(pi u/2)^2/(16u^2). Next substituting u = 2v/pi, we are left with pi/32 * integral(sin(v)^2/v^2 dv) Now we integrate by parts: a = sin(v)^2 da = 2sin(v)cos(v)dv = sin(2v)dv db = dv/v^2 b = -1/v -sin(v)^2/v|_{-infty}^infty + integral(sin(2v)/v dv). The first term vanishes, and we are left with integral(sin(2v)/v dv). Changing variables to v = w/2, we have integral(sin(w)/w dw) over the whole line. At this point, there are a number of standard techniques for showing this integral is pi. Thus the integral of sin(pi x/2)^2/(16(x-2)^2) is pi^2/32. Similarly, we can do the remaining term and get the same answer. We conclude the integral of (sin(pi x/2)/(x^2-4))^2 is pi^2/16. Similar techniques can handle the other integral.
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Re: integration
« Reply #14 on: Jun 2nd, 2010, 8:49pm » |
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sin(pi*x/2)^2= (1-cos(pi*x))/2 = Real part of 1-exp(i*pi*x) Integrate the function f(z)= (1-exp(i*pi*z))/2/(z-2)^2/(z+2)^2 dz around the contour along the axis from -inf to +inf (taking infinitesmal semi circular detours above the x axis to miss the singularities at z=-2 and z=+2), and then close the path by by taking a large (approaching R=infinity) semicircular arc back to the starting point. The value of this integral must be zero, as the contour contains no poles. The value of the large semi circular integral is zero. The real part of the portion of the integral along the x axis is what we want to evalute, and it must equal the sum of the integrals around the small semicircular arcs around z=-2 and z=+2 (moving counter clockwise). To evalute the semicircular integral around +2: the arc has radius r, and z=2+r*exp(i*theta) on this arc (which runs from theta=0 to theta=pi). By Taylor series, for small r, 1-exp(i*pi*z) approaches -i*pi*r*exp(i*theta). The dz term equals i*r*exp(i*theta) d(theta). Denominator in integrand is 2*r^2*exp(2*i*theta)*16. This leaves the integral of pi/32*d(theta) from 0 to pi, which equals pi^2/32. Same thing is obtained for z=-2, meaning the integral we are looking for has value pi^2/16. The second integral is done the same way except there is third singular point at z=0. The integrals of this around z=+2 and z=-2 are both pi^2/128, and around z=0 is pi^2/32, giving a total of 3*pi^2/64.
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Re: integration
« Reply #15 on: Jun 3rd, 2010, 8:01am » |
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Nice to see you back, SWF. As we are on the subject, prove analytically that between 0 and 2 (a2sin2t + b2cos2t).dt [4{ab + (a - b)2}]
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Re: integration
« Reply #16 on: Jun 6th, 2010, 4:40pm » |
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Thanks for noticing my absence. I kind of forgot about this site for a while and didn't have much time to work on riddles (still don't). An analytical solution to the integral inequality seems like more work than a geometrical one. The integral is the formula for perimeter of an ellipse. Since a circle is the shape having the largest ratio of area to perimeter, for a plane figure the perimeter must be greater than or equal to sqrt(4*pi*area). Ellipse has area pi*a*b, so this integral is greater than sqrt(4*pi^2*a*b). Cutting the ellipse into 4 identical curves, the four pieces can be placed so their endpoints lie on the corners of a square having side sqrt(a*a+b*b). This figure has the same perimeter as the original ellipse, but a larger area: pi*a*b + (a-b)^2. Since this figure must have a lower area to perimeter ratio than a circle, the desired inequality is obtained. The inequality could be improved by arranging segments of the ellipse into an even more circle-like shape.
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