Thursday, 22 December 2016

calculus - Integrals with the special functions Ci(x) and erf(x)



I'm looking for the solutions of the following two integrals:



I1=0dxex2Ci(ax)
and
I2=0dxeaxerf(x)
with
Ci(x)=xcos(t)tdt
and

erf(x)=2πx0et2dt



Now I'm not 100% sure what is meant by "the solution of the integrals" since these will probably be not-evaluable. But I'm guessing that the question is to reduce the expression to one single special function in stead of the integral of a special function with an elementary function.



Mathematica yields me the answers:
I1=π4Γ(0,a24)
and
I2=exp(a24)1erf(a/2)a



A good first step for evaluating these integrals I1 and I2 seemed to fill in the integral representations of these special functions and try to switch te integrals over x and t. However this has not (yet) been a success. I also tried to find a differential equation for these integrals, but also this was not so easy to do. Are there any tips/tricks to evaluate these integrals ?



Answer



Hint: Differentiate I1(a) with regard to a. Similarly, define  I2(b) = 0eax erf(bx) dx,  and then differentiate it with regard to b.


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