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editEvaluating an Integral
editHow would one prove that ? — GX, May 1971 (talk) 22:00, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
- I'm not sure about the notation on the right side of your equation (do you mean 1/(-a C a)?), but my first thought is the binomial theorem followed by term-by-term integration. I have this hunch that it's related to the gamma function or beta function.--Jasper Deng (talk) 00:56, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
- By doing that, I was able to re-write the definite integral as a convergent infinite series, but how this will help in solving the actual problem is beyond me.
- GX, May 1971 (talk) 01:43, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
- Hhm... after finding that this would fall flat on its face at first, I then tried the substitution which converts the integral to . This kinda resembles the beta function. I'll investigate further later on this evening.--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:18, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
- It should be there, not — GX, May 1971 (talk) 02:38, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
- After further investigation (thanks for that correction, by the way), I use the substitution to obtain . Since and are constant, I finally get an expression in terms of the incomplete beta function, .--Jasper Deng (talk) 03:10, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
- It should be there, not — GX, May 1971 (talk) 02:38, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
- Hhm... after finding that this would fall flat on its face at first, I then tried the substitution which converts the integral to . This kinda resembles the beta function. I'll investigate further later on this evening.--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:18, 17 June 2014 (UTC)