Help with Integral: Solve from 0 to pi

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The forum discussion centers on solving the double integral from 0 to π of the function \(\frac{-1-4 \cos(x)^2 \cos(y)^2+4 \cos(y)^2+\cos(x)^2}{1+4 \cos(y)^2+4 \cos(y) \cos(x)}\) with respect to variables x and y. The user attempted to compute this integral using Maple and Mathematica but did not achieve the expected results. The integral is part of a larger problem that originally contained 16 terms, with the user confident that the final result should yield a simple integer.

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I accept any suggestion in how to work out the integral below. It is a simplification of an integral over all k space. It had 16 terms and I am down to this 4. The idea is to integrate it from 0 to pi in respect of x, and y.

int{int{(-1-4 cos(x)^2*cos(y)^2+4cos(y)^2+cos(x)^2) / (1+4cos(y)^2+4cos(y)cos(x)dx}dy}

both with limits from 0 to pi.

Examples are:

int{int{sin(x)^2*cos(y)^2 dx}dy} = 1/4 pi.

I tried maple and matematica but didn't work. I strongly believe it is suppose to come out as a nice round integer number.

tks...
 
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[tex] \int{\int{/frac{(-1-4 cos(x)^2*cos(y)^2+4cos(y)^2+cos(x)^2)}{(1+4cos(y)^2+4cos(y)cos(x)}dxdy[/tex]?
 
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Same integral (latex version)

Yeah, it looks llike:

[tex]\int_{0}^{\pi} \int_{0}^{\pi} \frac{-1-4 cos(x)^2 cos(y)^2+4cos(y)^2+cos(x)^2}{1+4cos(y)^2+4cos(y)cos(x)}dx dy[/tex]

As explained before, this are the last terms of a 16 terms integral, all the other came to be integers.
 
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