Saturday, 19 January 2013

real analysis - For alpha>0, int+infty0fractsinttalpha,dt converges iff alphain(2,4)



I can't prove that for α>0, Iα=+0tsinttαdt converges iff α(2,4). Here's my attempt:



1) An easy remark but important: as sintt, we're dealing with a positive function.



2) I splited the integral to 10tsinttαdt and +1tsinttαdt and use the inequality t33!t55!tsintt33! but it didn't work.




3) This is the only thing that lead me to a part of the answer: I noticed that +0dttα1 is always divergent. Thus, if Iα converges, 0sinttαdt diverges. But we know that 1sinttαdt converges for any α>0. Thus 0sinttαdt diverges iff 10sinttαdt diverges. Since sintt near 0+, both positive, 10sinttαdt diverges iff α>2. Hence we showed that (Iαconverges)α>2



Could you please help me? Thank you in advance!


Answer



The idea to split the integral is fine.



First, note that the integral I1 as given by



I1=10tsin(t)tαdt




converges for α<4 (and diverges for α4) since the integrand is O(t3α) as t0.



Next, note that the integral I2 as given by



1tsin(t)tαdt



converges for α>2 (and diverges for α2) since the integrand is O(t1α) as t.



Putting it together, we have that the integral of interest I=I1+I2 converges for all α(2,4) and diverges elsewhere.


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