Derivation of parametric integral function

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consider the integral function $f(x):=\int_{0}^{+\infty}\mathrm{d}t\,\frac{\cos(xt)}{\sqrt{t^2+1}}$. I would like to derive $f$ with respect to $x$ to obtain $\frac{\mathrm{d}f(x)}{\mathrm{d}x}=-\int_{0}^{+\infty}\mathrm{d}t\,\frac{t\sin(xt)}{\sqrt{t^2+1}}$, but the integral is not absolutely convergent and Lebesgue's dominated convergence theorem cannot be applied here to justify the derivation under the integral sign. How could one proceed here?

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The integral $\int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{t \sin(xt)}{\sqrt{t^{2}+1}} \, \mathrm dt$ doesn't converge.

However, we can put $f(x)$ in a form that allows us to differentiate under the integral sign.

Assume that $x>0$.

Notice that $$\begin{align} f(x) &= \int_{0}^{\infty} \cos(xt) \left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{1+t^{2}}}- \frac{\boldsymbol{1}_{t > 1}}{t} \right) \, \mathrm dt + \int_{1}^{\infty} \frac{\cos xt}{t} \, \mathrm dt \\ &=\int_{0}^{\infty} \cos(xt) \left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{1+t^{2}}}- \frac{\boldsymbol{1}_{t > 1}}{t} \right) \, \mathrm dt - \operatorname{Ci}(x), \end{align}$$ where $\operatorname{Ci}(x)$ is the cosine integral function.

Differentiating both sides, we get $$\begin{align} \frac{\mathrm d}{\mathrm dx} f(x) &= -\int_{0}^{\infty}\sin(xt) \left(\frac{t}{\sqrt{1+t^{2}}}- \boldsymbol{1}_{t > 1} \right) \, \mathrm dt - \frac{\cos(x)}{x} \\ &= -\int_{0}^{\infty} \sin(xt) \left(\frac{t}{\sqrt{1+t^{2}}}-1 \right) \, \mathrm dt - \frac{1}{x} \end{align}$$

since $\int_{0}^{1} \sin(xt) \, \mathrm dt = \frac{1- \cos(x)}{x}$.

Differentiating under the integral sign was permissible since $\left| -\sin(xt) \left( \frac{t}{\sqrt{1+t^{2}}}- \boldsymbol{1}_{t > 1}\right) \right|$ is dominated on $[0,1]$ by $1$ and dominated on $(1, \infty)$ by $\left(1- \frac{t}{\sqrt{1+t^{2}}} \right)$.

And since $f(x)$ is an integral representation of $K_{0}(x)$, we have

$$\frac{\mathrm d}{\mathrm dx}K_{0}(x) = - K_{1}(x) = - \int_{0}^{\infty}\sin(xt) \left(\frac{t}{\sqrt{1+t^{2}}}-1 \right) \, \mathrm dt - \frac{1}{x}. $$