Trigonometric integral

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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.

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

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
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
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]

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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.

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