Integral of Exponential function

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Homework Statement



1. \int^{\infty}_{-\infty}e^{-ax^2 - bx^{\frac{5}{2}}}dx

2. \int^{\infty}_{-\infty}x^ne^{-ax^2 - bx^{\frac{5}{2}}}dx

(n is integer)

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Does anyone can give me the integral in the closed form or introduce any useful references?

Thank you.
 
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Hi macauor, Welcome to PF!

What is putting you off? Can you show us any workings out?

The Bob
 
Hello, The Bob
Thank you for your warm welcome!
I want to obtain the closed forms of the integration of the above two integrals.
Do you have any suggestion about that?
 
Dear The Bob,

It is really helpful.

Thank you for your kindness.

If I find the solution, I would like to share it on PF

macauor
 
There are two things I don't understand about this problem. First, when finding the nth root of a number, there should in theory be n solutions. However, the formula produces n+1 roots. Here is how. The first root is simply ##\left(r\right)^{\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}##. Then you multiply this first root by n additional expressions given by the formula, as you go through k=0,1,...n-1. So you end up with n+1 roots, which cannot be correct. Let me illustrate what I mean. For this...
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