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Re: Help with Integral

Subject: Re: Help with Integral
From: Andreas Dieckmann
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:24:25 EDT
Newsgroups: sci.math
Hi, 
thanks to Raymond for his observation, that 
u(a,b)=int_0^oo exp( I * b * x - a * sqrt( 1 + x^2)) dx
should solve  the Helmholtz equation.
The general solution to (d_aa + d_bb - 1) u(a,b) =0 is
u(a,b) = (A*besselJ(m,-I*sqrt(a^2+b^2)+B*besselY(-I*sqrt(a^2+b^2)))*
      (exp(+/- I * m * arctan(b/a))), obtained by separation into
polar coordinates and backsubstitution. 
For m=0, the 2nd factor is (1+C*arctan(b/a)).
If I set A=pi/2 * (-I)^(m+1) and B=-pi/2 * (-I)^m the first factor becomes
(besselK(m,sqrt(a^2+b^2)). Then the cosine part of the integral is readily 
identified with m=1 :
int_0^oo cos(b*x)*exp( - a * sqrt( 1 + x^2)) dx = 
        a/sqrt(a^2+b^2)*besselK(1,sqrt(a^2+b^2));
But I still cannot find the sine part 
int_0^oo sin(b*x)*exp( - a * sqrt( 1 + x^2)) dx, which falls off with
increasing b significantly weaker than the besselk(m,sqrt(a^2+b^2)).
Maybe there is another linear combination of bessel functions to be used ?

Clueless,

Andreas

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