Open Mathematics (Jan 2016)

Pochhammer symbol with negative indices. A new rule for the method of brackets

  • Gonzalez Ivan,
  • Jiu Lin,
  • Moll Victor H

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/math-2016-0063
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 681 – 686

Abstract

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The method of brackets is a method of integration based upon a small number of heuristic rules. Some of these have been made rigorous. An example of an integral involving the Bessel function is used to motivate a new evaluation rule.

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