Integration by part for an integral

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I have the following integral that I try to solve with integration by parts;

$$\int_{0}^{L}z^{\frac{1}{\phi}-1}p\left(z\right)dz$$

What I have tried is as follows ;

I know from my calculations (some other calculations that are not relevant for the my question) that I have ;

$$\frac{dp\left(z\right)}{dz}=-\frac{p\left(z\right)}{z\epsilon}$$

I make some simple manipulations, in order to replace $\frac{dp\left(z\right)}{dz}$ in the integral and I find ;

$$\epsilon\int_{0}^{L}z^{\frac{1}{\phi}-1}z\frac{p\left(z\right)}{z\epsilon}dz=\epsilon\int_{0}^{L}z^{\frac{1}{\phi}}\frac{p\left(z\right)}{z\epsilon}dz$$

I write $z$ as following ;

$$z=-\frac{p\left(z\right)}{\frac{dp\left(z\right)}{dz}\epsilon}$$

So, I write my first integral as follows ;

$$-\int_{0}^{L}\left(\frac{p\left(z\right)}{\frac{dp\left(z\right)}{dz}\epsilon}\right)^{\frac{1}{\phi}}\frac{dp\left(z\right)}{dz}dz=-\int_{0}^{L}\left(p\left(z\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{\phi}}\left(\frac{dp\left(z\right)}{dz}\right)^{1-\frac{1}{\phi}}dz$$

I nominate $u(z)=p\left(z\right)^{\frac{1}{\phi}}$ and $v'\left(z\right)=\left(\frac{dp\left(z\right)}{dz}\right)^{1-\frac{1}{\phi}}$ but I got stuck and I can not solve the integral.

Any hints or solutions ? Thanks in advance.

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If $$\dfrac{d}{dz} p(z) = - \dfrac{p(z)}{\epsilon z} $$ then for some constant $c$ you must have $$ p(z) = c z^{-1/\epsilon}$$ and then you don't need to integrate by parts.