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mhill
Apr23-08, 05:37 AM
if we had that A_{i,j,k,l} is a set of number could we obtain for the integral

\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} dV e^{-A_{i,j,k,l}x^{i}x^{j}x^{k}x^{l}} = C |A_{i,j,k,l}|^{-b}

here C and b are real constant, i am looking for a quartic or similar analogue to Gaussian integral, but can be defined as a generalization to the usual Gaussian integral for quartic and further terms ?

mathman
Apr23-08, 03:57 PM
Your integrand looks like the joint density function for 4 correlated Gaussian random variables. There is nothing special about 4.