Tuesday, 16 February 2016

real analysis - Is the integral intopinfty0fraccosxsqrt1+x3dx absolutely convergent, conditionally convergent or divergent?



I'm trying to solve the next problem: Determine if 0cosx1+x3dx
is absolutetly convergent, conditionally covergent or diverges.



I think that the integral is abosolutely convergent and I tried to
do this: For all x0 is true that
cosx1+x3cosx1+x311+x31x3=1x3/2.



Then, using the fact that 11xαdx
is convergent for α>1 and the comparison test we can conclude
that the integral 1cosx1+x3dx
is absolutely convergent. Also, since the function f(x)=cosx1+x3
is continuous on [0,) then is Riemann integrable on [0,1].
Therefore,
0cosx1+x3dx=10cosx1+x3dx+1cosx1+x3dx.




And then, 0cosx1+x3dx
is convergent since in the last equality, the two sumands on the right
side are finite. Thus, the integral 0cosx1+x3dx
is absolutely convergent.



I don't know if what I did is right. Could you help me checking or
giving me some suggestion?



Thanks.



Answer



This is correct. As you correctly noted, the absolute value of the integrand is continuous on R+; and thus in particular Riemann-integrable on any (bounded) interval [0,I]R.



Also, because you want to prove absolute convergence, your first inequality should be stated as
|cosx1+x3||cosx|1+x3.


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