I was surfing the net today and I fell on this cute integral
I have seen integrals of such kind before like for instance this .In fact something more general holds
where .
Solution
The original integral does not fall into this category which is a real shame. Yet it does have a closed form and it does not contain an in its final answer. Strange, huh? So similar but so different at the same time these two integrals. A sign changes everything.
We begin by exploring the integral
Manipulating the integral ( substitutions and known Gaussian results) reveals that
where . Taking the imaginary part of the last expression we get that
and this is the final answer. See, no !. Of course we can also extract the real part and calculate the corresponding integral involving
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