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Re: Integrate bug in v 9.0.0
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Feb 4, 2013 10:23 PM
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On Saturday, February 2, 2013 12:15:44 AM UTC-6, Alexey Popkov wrote:
> In version 9.0.0 the following integral is reported as divergent:
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> In[71]:= Integrate[x^2/(x^2 - x0^2), {x, x1, x2},
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> Assumptions -> x0 > x2 > x1 >= 0]
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> During evaluation of In[71]:= Integrate::idiv: Integral of x^2/(x^2-x0^2)
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> does not converge on {x1,x2}. >>
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> Out[71]= Integrate[x^2/(x^2 - x0^2), {x, x1, x2},
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> Assumptions -> x0 > x2 > x1 >= 0]
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> Versions 8.0.4 and 5.2 give equivalent expressions:
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> In[2]:= Integrate[x^2/(x^2 - x0^2), {x, x1, x2},
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> Assumptions -> x0 > x2 > x1 >= 0]
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> Out[2]= -x1 + x2 + x0 ArcTanh[(x0 (x1 - x2))/(x0^2 - x1 x2)]
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> In[9]:=
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> Integrate[x^2/(x^2-x0^2),{x,x1,x2},Assumptions->x0>x2>x1>=0]
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> Out[9]=
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> -x1+x2+1/2 x0 (Log[x0+x1]+Log[x0-x2]-Log[(x0-x1) (x0+x2)])
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> In[8]:= FullSimplify[-x1 + x2 +
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> 1/2 x0 (Log[x0 + x1] + Log[x0 - x2] -
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> Log[(x0 - x1) (x0 + x2)]) == -x1 + x2 +
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> x0 ArcTanh[(x0 (x1 - x2))/(x0^2 - x1 x2)],
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> Assumptions -> x0 > x2 > x1 >= 0]
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> Out[8]= True
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> Alexey
Appears to be substantially the same underlying issue as was reported here.
http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/18348/mathematica-9-cannot-solve-this-integral-mathematica-8-could-is-this-a-bug
It is provisionally fixed in the version currently under development.
Daniel Lichtblau
Wolfram Research
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