Calculate integral with help the Euler's integrals

Question

It is my first question. In advance please sorry for my bad English!

I need to calculate this integral with help the Euler's integrals: $$ \int_0^{+\infty} \frac{1}{1+x^5} $$

I have tried decompose integrand in Taylor Series but I did not get anything. Also I tried use partial fractions and I got crazy expression.

I'm here to get an elegant solution of this question. Thank you for help in advance.

Answer 1

I would love to add another method. $$ \int_{0}^{+\infty}\frac{dx}{1+x^5} = \int_{0}^{1}\frac{1+x^3}{1+x^5}\,dx=\int_{0}^{1}\frac{1+x^3-x^5-x^8}{1-x^{10}}\,dx \tag{1}$$ where the first equality follows from splitting $\mathbb{R}^+$ as $(0,1)\cup[1,+\infty)$ and by enforcing the substitution $x\mapsto\frac{1}{x}$ on the second "half". Since $\frac{1}{1-x^{10}}=\sum_{n\geq 0}x^{10n}$ for any $x\in(0,1)$, the RHS of $(1)$ can be written as $$ \sum_{n\geq 0}\left(\frac{1}{10n+1}+\frac{1}{10n+4}-\frac{1}{10n+6}-\frac{1}{10n+9}\right).\tag{2} $$ On the other hand for any $a,b>0$ with $a\neq b$ we have $\sum_{n\geq 0}\frac{1}{(n+a)(n+b)}=\frac{\psi(a)-\psi(b)}{a-b}$. Due to the reflection formula for the $\psi$ function we also have the following useful lemma: $$ \forall \alpha\in(0,1),\qquad \sum_{n\geq 0}\left(\frac{1}{n+\alpha}-\frac{1}{n+(1-\alpha)}\right)=\pi\cot(\pi \alpha)\tag{3}$$ which is also a consequence of Herglotz' trick. It is enough to consider $\alpha=\frac{1}{10}$ and $\alpha=\frac{2}{5}$ to crack $(2)$ and so the original integral: $$ \int_{0}^{+\infty}\frac{dx}{1+x^5}= \frac{\pi}{10}\left(\cot\frac{\pi}{10}+\cot\frac{2\pi}{5}\right)=\frac{\pi}{5\sin\frac{\pi}{5}}.\tag{4} $$ In general, for any $\beta>1$ the same approach leads to $$ \int_{0}^{+\infty}\frac{dx}{1+x^\beta}= \frac{\pi}{\beta\sin\frac{\pi}{\beta}}.\tag{5} $$

Answer 2

Let's directly calculate this:

$$\int_0^{+\infty} \frac{1}{1+x^n}\ \text{d}x$$

At the end you will plug $n = 5$ or whatever. Notice that for $n = 1$ the integral diverges.

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Method 1: Let $x=\sqrt[n]{\tan^{2}\theta }$, then \begin{align*} \int_{0}^{\infty }\frac{1}{1+x^{n}}\, \mathrm{d}x&=\frac{2}{n}\int_{0}^{\pi /2}\cos^{1-2/n}\theta \sin^{2/n-1}\theta \, \mathrm{d}\theta \\ &=\frac{1}{n}\mathrm{B}\left ( 1-\frac{1}{n},\frac{1}{n} \right )\\ &=\frac{1}{n}\Gamma \left ( 1-\frac{1}{n} \right )\Gamma \left ( \frac{1}{n} \right )\\ &=\frac{\pi }{n}\mathrm{csc}\frac{\pi }{n} \end{align*} where $\mathrm{B}\left ( \cdot \right )$ is the Beta function and $\Gamma\left ( \cdot \right )$ is the Gamma function.

Method 2: \begin{align*} &{\int_0^\infty \frac{1}{x^n+1} \:{\rm{d}}x}=\int_0^\infty\int_0^\infty e^{-(x^n+1)t} \:{\rm{d}}t\:{\rm{d}}x \\&=\int_0^\infty e^{-t}\int_0^\infty e^{-x^n t} \:{\rm{d}}t\:{\rm{d}}x =\int_0^\infty e^{-t}\left(\int_0^\infty e^{-x^n t}\:{\rm{d}}x\right)\:{\rm{d}}t \\&=\frac1n\int_0^\infty t^{-\frac1n}e^{-t}\left(\int_0^\infty u^{\frac1n-1} e^{-u}{\rm{d}}u\right)\:{\rm{d}}t =\frac1n \Gamma\left(1-\frac1n\right)\Gamma\left(\frac1n\right) \\&=\frac{\pi }{n}\mathrm{csc}\frac{\pi }{n} \end{align*}

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More general, using the same way as Method 1 mentioned,we get $$\int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{\mu-1}}{1+x^{\nu}} \; \mathrm{d}x=\frac{\pi}{\nu} \csc \left( \frac{\pi \mu}{\nu} \right)$$ where $0< \mu < \nu $