Question on integral

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I need a confirmation and answer about the following problem:

If we have $ g(x)=\ln x+{ x }^{ -1/2 }{ 1 }_{ x\le 1 } $

I'm trying to determine $ \int _{ 0 }^{ +\infty }{ \ln x+{ x }^{ -1/2 }{ 1 }_{ x\le 1 } } $

$$ \int _{ 0 }^{ +\infty }{ \ln x+{ x }^{ -1/2 }{ 1 }_{ x\le 1 } } =\int _{ 0 }^{ 1 }{ \ln x+{ x }^{ -1/2 }{ 1 }_{ x\le 1 } } +\int _{ 1 }^{ +\infty }{ \ln x } $$

For the first part:

$$\begin{align} \int _{ 0 }^{ 1 }{ \ln x+{ x }^{ -1/2 }{ 1 }_{ x\le 1 } } & ={ \left[ x\ln x-x+2\sqrt { x } \right] }_{ 0 }^{ 1 }\\ & =1 \ln 1-1+2\sqrt { 1 } -X \ln X-0+2\sqrt { 0 } \\ & =1-X \ln X \end{align}$$

which tends to $1$ at $0$.

For the second part:

$$\begin{align} \int _{ 1 }^{ +\infty }{ \ln x } ={ \left[ x \ln x-x \right] }_{ 1 }^{ +\infty } & =X \ln X-X-1 \ln 1-1 \\ & =X \ln X-X-1 \end{align}$$

This thing tends to $+\infty$ as $X$ grows to $+\infty$.

So for me the whole $\int _{ 0 }^{ +\infty }{ \ln x+{ x }^{ -1/2 }{ 1 }_{ x\le 1 } }=+\infty$

  • Am I correct ?
  • Does it mean that this integral is not defined ? I'm not sure what it means to say that an integral is not defined.

Thanks in advance please.