Evaluate Integral – Evaluate Integral of Logarithmic and Rational Functions

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I'm really stuck on this integral. I want to believe there is a closed form for it but I'm really unable to find it. WFA cannot find one either. I think it may be possible to use Feynman's Trick and reduce it to something easier but I can't find a good parameterisation that gives something workable. So far, I have factored the denominator to be $(x^2+x-1)(x^2+x+1)$ and have tried to parametrise like

$$I(a) = \displaystyle \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{\ln(a(x^2+1))}{(x^2+x-1)(x^2+x+1)}dx$$

Which looks promising but after differentiating and integrating (via symbolic math software) I get $I'(a)=\frac{\pi}{\sqrt{3}a}$ and I can't do anything to retrieve $I(1)$ since $I(0)$ is not defined. Performing partial fraction decomposition gives

$$\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{x\ln(x^2+1)+\ln(x^2+1)}{2(x^2+x+1)} – \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{x\ln(x^2+1)-\ln(x^2+1)}{2(x^2-x+1)}$$

I am unsure where to go from there. Can anyone give me a hint at the paramterisation if that even is the right approach or if a closed form for this integral even exists? WFA says the decimal expansion is 0.743763…

Best Answer

$$I=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{\log(x^2+1)}{x^4+x^2+1}\,dx=2\int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{\log(x^2+1)}{x^4+x^2+1}\,dx$$ $$J(a)=\int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{\log(ax^2+1)}{x^4+x^2+1}\,dx$$ $$ J'(a)=\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{x^2}{\left(x^4+x^2+1\right) \left(a x^2+1\right)}$$ Use the roots of unity and write (shorter) $$\frac{x^2}{\left(x^4+x^2+1\right) \left(a x^2+1\right)}=\frac{x^2}{(x^2-r)(x^2-s) \left(a x^2+1\right)}=$$ $$-\frac{a}{(a r+1) (a s+1) \left(a x^2+1\right)}+\frac{r}{(a r+1) (r-s) \left(x^2-r\right)}-\frac{s}{(a s+1) (r-s) \left(x^2-s\right)}$$ Simple integrals; using the bounds $$J'(a)=\frac {\pi \sqrt 3} 6\,\, \frac{a-\sqrt{3a} +1}{a^2-a+1}$$ $$\int_0^1 \frac{a-\sqrt{3a} +1}{a^2-a+1}\,da=2\int_0^1 \frac {db}{ b^2+b\,\sqrt{3}+1}=\log \left(2+\sqrt{3}\right)-\frac{\pi }{2 \sqrt{3}}$$ Recombining $$I=\frac{\pi }{\sqrt{3}}\log \left(2+\sqrt{3}\right)-\frac{\pi ^2}{6}$$

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