Questions tagged [polylogarithm]
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How to compute $\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{(-1)^n}{n^2}H_{2n}$
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In this post I computed the following integral
$$\int_{0}^{1}\frac{\log(1-x)\log(1-x^2)}{x}dx=\frac{11}{8}\zeta(3)$$
Now I am trying to compute
$$\boxed{\int_{0}^{1}\frac{\log(1-x)\log(1-x^4)}{x}...
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Evaluating an integral from 0 to 1 with a parameter, (and a dilogarithm)
So I need to evaluate the following integral (in terms of a):
$$\int_{0}^{1} \frac{\ln{|1-\frac{y}{a}|}}{y} dy$$
Till now I have tried u-sub ($u = \ln{|1-\frac{y}{a}|}$, $u=\frac{y}{a}$) and ...
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A cool integral: $\int^{\ln{\phi}}_{0}\ln\left(e^{x}-e^{-x}\right)dx=-\frac{\pi^2}{20}$
I was looking at the equation $\ln{e^{x}-e^{-x}}$ and found that the zero was at $x=\ln{\phi}$ where $\phi$ is the golden ratio. I thought that was pretty cool so I attempted to find the integral. I ...
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Solve the integral $\int_0^1 \frac{\ln^2(x+1)-\ln\left(\frac{2x}{x^2+1}\right)\ln x+\ln^2\left(\frac{x}{x+1}\right)}{x^2+1} dx$
I tried to solve this integral and got it, I showed firstly
$$\int_0^1 \frac{\ln^2(x+1)+\ln^2\left(\frac{x}{x+1}\right)}{x^2+1} dx=2\Im\left[\text{Li}_3(1+i) \right] $$
and for other integral
$$\int_0^...
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Calculate an integral involving polylog functions
Im my recent answer https://math.stackexchange.com/a/4777055/198592 I found numerically that the following integral has a very simple result
$$i = \int_0^1 \frac{\text{Li}_2\left(\frac{i\; t}{\sqrt{1-...
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Closed forms of the integral $ \int_0^1 \frac{\mathrm{Li}_n(x)}{(1+x)^n} d x $
(This is related to this question).
How would one find the closed forms the integral
$$ \int_0^1 \frac{\mathrm{Li}_n(x)}{(1+x)^n} d x?
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I tried using Nielsen Generalized Polylogarithm as mentioned ...
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Closed form of dilogarithm fucntion involving many arctangents
I am trying to find closed form for this expression:
$$ - 2{\text{L}}{{\text{i}}_2}\left( {\frac{1}{3}} \right) - {\text{L}}{{\text{i}}_2}\left( {\frac{1}{6}\left( {1 + i\sqrt 2 } \right)} \right) - {\...
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Polylogarithm further generalized
Here I proposed a generalized formula for the polylogarithm. However, because of a slight mistake towards the end, visible prior to the edit, I was unaware that it yields just a result of an integral ...
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Generalized formula for the polylogarithm
Some time ago, I discovered the formula for repeated application of $z\frac{d}{dz}$ here. Recently, I thought about taking the function to which this would be applied to be the integral representation ...
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Evaluating $\int_{0}^{1}\mathrm{d}x\,\frac{\operatorname{arsinh}{(ax)}\operatorname{arsinh}{(bx)}}{x}$ in terms of polylogarithms
Define the function $\mathcal{I}:\mathbb{R}^{2}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ by the definite integral
$$\mathcal{I}{\left(a,b\right)}:=\int_{0}^{1}\mathrm{d}x\,\frac{\operatorname{arsinh}{\left(ax\right)}\...
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Complex polylogarithm/Clausen function/Fourier series
Sorry for the confusing title but I'm having a problem and I can phrase the question in multiple different ways.
I was calculating with WolframAlpha
$$\int \text{atanh}(\cos(x))\mathrm{d}x= i \text{Li}...
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Closed-form of $\int_0^1 \frac{\operatorname{Li}_2\left( x \right)}{\sqrt{1-x^2}} \,dx $
I'm looking for a closed form of this integral.
$$I = \int_0^1 \frac{\operatorname{Li}_2\left( x \right)}{\sqrt{1-x^2}} \,dx ,$$
where $\operatorname{Li}_2$ is the dilogarithm function.
A numerical ...
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Converting polylogarithms to Dirichlet L functions
When trying to simplify polylogarithms evaluated at some root of unity, namely $\text{Li}_s(\omega)$ for $\omega=e^{2\pi i ~r/n}$, it is reasonable to convert it to Hurwitz zeta functions or Dirichlet ...
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Proving that $\int_0^1 \frac{\log^2(x)\tanh^{-1}(x)}{1+x^2}dx=\beta(4)-\frac{\pi^2}{12}G$
I am trying to prove that
$$I=\int_0^1 \frac{\log^2(x)\tanh^{-1}(x)}{1+x^2}dx=\beta(4)-\frac{\pi^2}{12}G$$
where $\beta(s)$ is the Dirichlet Beta function and $G$ is the Catalan's constant. I managed ...
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Imaginary part of the dilogarithm of an imaginary number
I am wondering if I can simplify
$${\rm Im} \left[ {\rm Li}_2(i x)\right] \ , $$
in terms of more elementary functions, when $x$ is real (in particular, I am interested in $0<x<1$). I checked ...
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