Prove that $f(\alpha)$ is differentiable using uniform convergence.

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Please help me to handle the following problem:

Prove that if $\alpha>0$, then $$f(\alpha)=\int_0^{+\infty} \frac{x}{x^{\alpha+2}+1}dx$$

is differentiable.

My attempt:

I am going to use the following fact:

If $f(x,\alpha)$ and $f'_{\alpha}(x,\alpha)$ are continuous in $[0,+\infty)\times(0, +\infty)]$ and

  1. $I(\alpha)=\int_0^{+\infty}f(x,\alpha)$ is convergent

  2. $\int_0^{+\infty}f'_{\alpha}(x,\alpha)$ is convergent uniformly for $\alpha \in (0,+\infty)$

then for any $\alpha \in (0,+\infty)$ there exists $I'(\alpha)=\int_0^{+\infty}f'_{\alpha}(x,\alpha)$

In my notes this is called Leibniz rule, but I do not know standard name of this result in English. Please let me know.

In fact this result was mentioned in a bit more general settings, but I put constants (integration limits) related to the problem.

We have $f'_{\alpha}(x,\alpha)=-\frac{x^{\alpha+3}\log x}{(x^{\alpha+2}+1)^2}$. So $f(x,\alpha)$ is continuous $[0,+\infty)\times(0, +\infty)]$, but $f'_{\alpha}(x,\alpha)$ is not, because it is not defined when $x=0$. How should I handle this issue?

$$f(\alpha)=\int_0^{+\infty} \frac{x}{x^{\alpha+2}+1}dx < \int_0^{+\infty} \frac{x}{x^{\alpha+2}}dx=\int_0^{+\infty} \frac{1}{x^{\alpha+1}}dx<+\infty$$ This is well know fact.

Now I have to prove that that $$f'_{\alpha}(x,\alpha)=-\frac{x^{\alpha+3}\log x}{(x^{\alpha+2}+1)^2}$$ converges uniformly. If there were no $\log x$ factor, that would be easy, but it is not the case. How should I prove uniform convergence?

Thanks a lot for your answers and for pointing on my mistakes.