Trigonometric integral

Summary

In mathematics, trigonometric integrals are a family of nonelementary integrals involving trigonometric functions.

Plot of the hyperbolic sine integral function Shi(z) in the complex plane from -2-2i to 2+2i with colors created with Mathematica 13.1 function ComplexPlot3D
Plot of the hyperbolic sine integral function Shi(z) in the complex plane from -2-2i to 2+2i with colors created with Mathematica 13.1 function ComplexPlot3D

Si(x) (blue) and Ci(x) (green) plotted on the same plot.
Integral sine in the complex plane, plotted with a variant of domain coloring.
Integral cosine in the complex plane. Note the branch cut along the negative real axis.

Sine integral edit

 
Plot of Si(x) for 0 ≤ x ≤ 8π.
 
Plot of the cosine integral function Ci(z) in the complex plane from −2 − 2i to 2 + 2i with colors created with Mathematica 13.1 function ComplexPlot3D

The different sine integral definitions are

 
 

Note that the integrand   is the sinc function, and also the zeroth spherical Bessel function. Since sinc is an even entire function (holomorphic over the entire complex plane), Si is entire, odd, and the integral in its definition can be taken along any path connecting the endpoints.

By definition, Si(x) is the antiderivative of sin x / x whose value is zero at x = 0, and si(x) is the antiderivative whose value is zero at x = ∞. Their difference is given by the Dirichlet integral,

 

In signal processing, the oscillations of the sine integral cause overshoot and ringing artifacts when using the sinc filter, and frequency domain ringing if using a truncated sinc filter as a low-pass filter.

Related is the Gibbs phenomenon: If the sine integral is considered as the convolution of the sinc function with the heaviside step function, this corresponds to truncating the Fourier series, which is the cause of the Gibbs phenomenon.

Cosine integral edit

 
Plot of Ci(x) for 0 < x ≤ 8π .

The different cosine integral definitions are

 
 
where γ ≈ 0.57721566 ... is the Euler–Mascheroni constant. Some texts use ci instead of Ci.

Ci(x) is the antiderivative of cos x / x (which vanishes as  ). The two definitions are related by

 

Cin is an even, entire function. For that reason, some texts treat Cin as the primary function, and derive Ci in terms of Cin.

Hyperbolic sine integral edit

The hyperbolic sine integral is defined as

 

It is related to the ordinary sine integral by

 

Hyperbolic cosine integral edit

The hyperbolic cosine integral is

 
Plot of the hyperbolic cosine integral function Chi(z) in the complex plane from -2-2i to 2+2i with colors created with Mathematica 13.1 function ComplexPlot3D

 
where   is the Euler–Mascheroni constant.

It has the series expansion

 

Auxiliary functions edit

Trigonometric integrals can be understood in terms of the so-called "auxiliary functions"

 
Using these functions, the trigonometric integrals may be re-expressed as (cf. Abramowitz & Stegun, p. 232)
 

Nielsen's spiral edit

 
Nielsen's spiral.

The spiral formed by parametric plot of si , ci is known as Nielsen's spiral.

 
 

The spiral is closely related to the Fresnel integrals and the Euler spiral. Nielsen's spiral has applications in vision processing, road and track construction and other areas.[1]

Expansion edit

Various expansions can be used for evaluation of trigonometric integrals, depending on the range of the argument.

Asymptotic series (for large argument) edit

 
 

These series are asymptotic and divergent, although can be used for estimates and even precise evaluation at ℜ(x) ≫ 1.

Convergent series edit

 
 

These series are convergent at any complex x, although for |x| ≫ 1, the series will converge slowly initially, requiring many terms for high precision.

Derivation of series expansion edit

From the Maclaurin series expansion of sine:

 

 

 

Relation with the exponential integral of imaginary argument edit

The function

 
is called the exponential integral. It is closely related to Si and Ci,
 

As each respective function is analytic except for the cut at negative values of the argument, the area of validity of the relation should be extended to (Outside this range, additional terms which are integer factors of π appear in the expression.)

Cases of imaginary argument of the generalized integro-exponential function are

 
which is the real part of
 

Similarly

 

Efficient evaluation edit

Padé approximants of the convergent Taylor series provide an efficient way to evaluate the functions for small arguments. The following formulae, given by Rowe et al. (2015),[2] are accurate to better than 10−16 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 4,

 

The integrals may be evaluated indirectly via auxiliary functions   and  , which are defined by

 
 
or equivalently
 
 


For   the Padé rational functions given below approximate   and   with error less than 10−16:[2]

 

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Gray (1993). Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces. Boca Raton. p. 119.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ a b Rowe, B.; et al. (2015). "GALSIM: The modular galaxy image simulation toolkit". Astronomy and Computing. 10: 121. arXiv:1407.7676. Bibcode:2015A&C....10..121R. doi:10.1016/j.ascom.2015.02.002. S2CID 62709903.

Further reading edit

  • Mathar, R.J. (2009). "Numerical evaluation of the oscillatory integral over exp(iπxx1/x between 1 and ∞". Appendix B. arXiv:0912.3844 [math.CA].
  • Press, W.H.; Teukolsky, S.A.; Vetterling, W.T.; Flannery, B.P. (2007). "Section 6.8.2 – Cosine and Sine Integrals". Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing (3rd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-88068-8.
  • Sloughter, Dan. "Sine Integral Taylor series proof" (PDF). Difference Equations to Differential Equations.
  • Temme, N.M. (2010), "Exponential, Logarithmic, Sine, and Cosine Integrals", in Olver, Frank W. J.; Lozier, Daniel M.; Boisvert, Ronald F.; Clark, Charles W. (eds.), NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-19225-5, MR 2723248.

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