Integration of the exponential radial function

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Can anyone please help me regarding the following integral estimate.

Suppose $B(0,R)=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^N:|x|<R\}$ and $\alpha>0$ is some positive constant. Then does the integral $$ I=\int_{B(0,R)}\,e^{\alpha|x|}\,dx $$ satisfies the estimate: $I\leq C\,R^{\beta}$ for some constants $\beta$, $C$ (both independent of $R$). Can you explicitly calculate $\beta$ if that estimate holds.

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No. If you use spherical coordinates then $dx=r^{N-1}drd\Omega$ where $d\Omega$ is the solid angle. Then you can write $I=\Omega\int_0^R e^{\alpha r}r^{N-1}dr $ and you can bound this as $I<\Omega e^{\alpha R}\frac{R^{N}}{N}$.

Notice also that if you expand the last integrand and integrate term by term you get $$I=\Omega \sum_{m=0}^\infty \frac{\alpha^m R^{m+N}}{m!(m+N)}$$ and this clearly is not bounded by $R^\beta$ since the sum is infinite.

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I dont think it is even possible to get such an estimate. Rewriting $$ I=\int_0^R \int_{\partial B_r(0)}e^{\alpha |x|} dS dr = C(n)\int_0^R r^{n-1}e^{\alpha r}dr$$ where $C(n)$ is a constant associated with the dimension and the measure of the unit sphere. For your estimate to hold, we require that:
$$ C(n)\int_0^R r^{n-1}e^{\alpha r}dr \leq C R^{\beta} $$ We can write the integrand as: $$ f(r)=\sum_0^{\infty} \frac{\alpha^k r^{k+n-1}}{k!} $$ And integrating, provided everything converges, gives $$ F(r)=\sum_0^{\infty} \frac{\alpha^k r^{n+k}}{k!(n+k)} $$ Plugging in the values gives: $$ \sum_0^{\infty} \frac{\alpha^k R^{n+k}}{k!(n+k)}-F(0) $$ Assuming the desired estimate would hold, this would imply that $$ \sum_0^{\infty} \frac{\alpha^k R^{n+k}}{k!(n+k)}-F(0) \leq C_2(n) R^{\beta} $$ Sending $R \to \infty$ however, makes this claim false since we can always find $n+k \geq \beta$ and therefore $R^{n+k} \geq R^{\beta}$