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SIGMA, 2015 Volume 11, 083, 11 pp. (Mi sigma1064)

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Certain Integrals Arising from Ramanujan's Notebooks

Bruce C. Berndta, Armin Straubb

a University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 1409 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
b University of South Alabama, 411 University Blvd N, Mobile, AL 36688, USA

Abstract: In his third notebook, Ramanujan claims that
$$ \int_0^\infty \frac{\cos(nx)}{x^2+1} \log x \mathrm{d} x + \frac{\pi}{2} \int_0^\infty \frac{\sin(nx)}{x^2+1} \mathrm{d}x = 0. $$
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 $\log x$ were replaced by $\log^2x$ in the first integral and $\log x$ 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.

Keywords: Ramanujan's notebooks; contour integration; trigonometric integrals.

MSC: 33E20

Received: September 5, 2015; in final form October 11, 2015; Published online October 14, 2015

Language: English

DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2015.083



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ArXiv: 1509.00886


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