This question has an answer that relates differentiation under the integral to the OP.
Again, here's the original integral:
∫∞0cosx1+x2dx
...and we let F(y)=∫∞0sinxyx(1+x2) dx fory>0
The first part of interest is in showing that F″(y)−F(y)+π/2=0. Is it necessary to integrate F(y) to show this? What about the possibility of taking limy→0+ beforehand? I'm wondering if someone can help explain this step in much greater detail. I'm a little hazy with the y>0 portion of it, and whether or not integration has to occur here. I'm trying to make sure I thoroughly understand this post so that I can apply it later to different problems.
Answer
Computing the following F″(y)−F(y) combination, gives
∫∞0sin(xy)x−x2−11+x2dx=−∫∞0sin(xy)dxx=−∫∞0sin(x)dxx=−π2
Notice that we did use y>0 when changing variables.
Now, the only thing that remains to be justified is that F″(y) integral converges, and this is so because x21+x2<1 for real x.
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