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Bug in integrate

Bart 117 Maple 2016
November 18 2016
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There seems to be a bug in determining the folowing integral analytically:

integrate(-(3/2*(exp(-(1/4)*x)*x-sqrt(Pi)*erf((1/2)*sqrt(x))*sqrt(x)))/(sqrt(x)*sqrt(Pi)*erf((1/2)*sqrt(x))), x = 0..1)

Maple gives as a result

3/2

However, numerically integrating it

integrate(-(3/2*(exp(-(1/4)*x)*x-sqrt(Pi)*erf((1/2)*sqrt(x))*sqrt(x)))/(sqrt(x)*sqrt(Pi)*erf((1/2)*sqrt(x))), x=0..1,numeric)

gives

0.1195461293

In fact, integrating it from a to b,

integrate(-(3/2*(exp(-(1/4)*x)*x-sqrt(Pi)*erf((1/2)*sqrt(x))*sqrt(x)))/(sqrt(x)*sqrt(Pi)*erf((1/2)*sqrt(x))), x=a..b)

gives

-3/2 a + 3/2 b

suggesting that Maple thinks the integrand is just 3/2. If one plots it, then it becomes obvious that this is not the case.

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