Analytical continuation...

eljose

Let,s suppose we have the asymptotyc development of the integral:

[tex] \int_{x}^{\infty}F(t)=g(x)[1+a/x+b/x^{2}+c/x^{3}+....] [/tex]

where a,b,c,.. are known constants and g(x) is a known function then you all will agree that this expression could be useful to compute the integral when x-------->oo, my question is if this expression can be analytically continued to calculate the integral for low x for example x=1,2,3.......

matt grime

Why would I want to compute the integral

[tex]\int_{x}^{\infty}F(t)dt[/tex]

as x tends to infinity? If that integral exists for all x, then obviously I know that the limit, as x tends to infinity must be zero without doing any computation.

eljose

yes but perhaps you are interested in knowing the values of the integral for big x x=100,1000,100000000000000 or for low x x=1,2,3,4,.....

matt grime

but that is strictly different from evaluating a limit as x--->infinty.