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A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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Since the infinity sum of sin(x) from x=0 to infinity (sin(0) + sin(1)+ ...) don't converge, we can use the Abel-Plana formula to calculate a renormalized sum of the former divergent sum:
sum(f(t),t=0 to infinity) = f(0)/2 + integrate(f(t),t,0,infinity) - i * integrate((f(i*t) - f(-i*t))/(exp(2*pi*t)-1) , t, 0 ,infinity)
But today I only show the problem, waiting to someone to try solve this ridle.
Edit: A minor fix to the result.
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Re: A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=2+(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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November 09, 2012, 04:00:31 am »
Welcome to omni
I won't be able to proof that though.
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Re: A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=2+(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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November 09, 2012, 05:53:44 am »
Welcome to Omnimaga indeed
And I am a little confused by your notation. When you say Sum, do you mean integral?
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Re: A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=2+(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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no I think it means the iterative sum >sigma notation?
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Re: A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=2+(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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November 09, 2012, 07:47:06 am »
I'm gonna think about that, it looks inteesting
And btw, you sir deserve 1 internet for making WolframAlpha crazy (first time I actually see something like that on it) :
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Re: A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=-(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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November 09, 2012, 07:56:40 am »
When I mean sum is the usual sigma notation.
I will show gradually the proof of this renormalized sum, so be aware.
I'm also the main author of a portuguese written book of Special Functions that I publish in Amazon: "Introdução à Função Zeta e Gama de Riemann": Introduction to Riemann Zeta and Gama Function.
The proof of Abel-Plana formula was derived in Theorem 7.3 of my book
But I will translated to you...
1st Step:
Just apply f(t)=sin(t) to the Abel-Plana Equation, and it give:
sum of sin(t) from t=0 to infinity = sin(0)/2 + integral(sin(x),x,0,infinity) + i * integral(2*sinh(t)/(exp(2*pi*t)-1),t,0,infinity)
sum of sin(t) from t=0 to infinity = integral(sin(x),x,0,infinity) - integral(2*sinh(t)/(exp(2*pi*t)-1),t,0,infinity)
Since sin(i*t) = i* sinh(t) and sin(-i*t) = - i * sinh(t).
If you ask it, I can publish the proof of Abel-Plana by steps.
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Re: A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=2+(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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November 09, 2012, 08:30:47 am »
Wow, this looks absolutely intriguing. I cannot yet arrive to this same conclusion, but I have some math that may be of interest. Please note that I figured this all out on my own (including the Euler-Maclaurin formula. I only just recently learned that it was already discovered). Anyways, this does not at all answer your question, but I think you will appreciate this math, especially if you understand the Riemann Zeta function.
Use the Euler-Maclaurin formula to show that:
sum(sin(n),n,0,x)=sum(sin(n),n,1,x)=integral(sin(x))+sin(x)/2+cos(x)/12--cos(x)/(30*4!)+cos(x)/(42*6!)--cos(x)(30*8!)+...
=-|B
0
|cos(x)+|B
1
|sin(x)+|B
2
|cos(x)/2!+|B
4
|cos(x)/4!+|B
6
|cos(x)/6!+|B
8
|cos(x)/8!+|B
10
|cos(x)/10!...
(where B
n
is the Bernoulli numbers)
Then we have that sum(sin(n),n,1,x)=B
1
sin(x)+cos(x)(-B
0
+|B
2
|/2!+|B
4
|/4!+|B
6
|/6!+|B
8
|/8!+...)=B
1
sin(x)-cos(x)+cos(x)sum(|B
2n
|/(2n)!,n,1,x)
To be mathematically tricky, I will make that -cos(x) go into the sum, even though all the other terms are positive. How? Note that 2^0=1, but 2^n, where n is an integer greater than 0 is even. Then, (-1)
2
n
=-1 for n=0 and 1 for all the rest. So:
sum(sin(n),n,1,x)=sin(x)/2+cos(x)sum((-1)
2
n
|B
2n
|/(2n)!,n,0,x)
Note that this is a constant: sum((-1)
2
n
|B
2n
|/(2n)!,n,0,x)
Now we step completely away from this. How do we write sum(sin(n),n,1,x) in an alternative way? First, look at sum(a
n
,n,0,x)=a
0
+a
1
+a
2
+a
3
+...+a
x
. If we add a
x+1
, we will have the following:
a
x+1
+sum(a
n
,n,0,x)=sum(a
n
,n,0,
x+1
)
Reindexing the right side a few times:
a
x+1
+sum(a
n
,n,0,x)=a
0
+sum(a
n
,n,1,
x+1
)
a
x+1
+sum(a
n
,n,0,x)=1+sum(a
n+1
,n,0,
x
)
Now the sums have the same index, so we can combine them:
a
x+1
-1=sum(a
n+1
,n,0,x)-sum(a
n
,n,0,x)
a
x+1
-1=sum(a
n+1
-a
n
,n,0,x)
a
x+1
-1=sum(a
n
(a-1),n,0,x)
a
x+1
-1=(a-1)sum(a
n
,n,0,x)
(a
x+1
-1)/(a-1)=sum(a
n
,n,0,x)
Now how is this useful? Recall that e
bi
=cos(b)+isin(b) (if you want, I can give a clever little proof of that using the Maclaurin series of e
x
). Then, if we take only the imaginary part of that, we will have sin(b). This means, if we want sin(0)+sin(1)+sin(2)+...+sin(x), we can simply do this:
sum(sin(n),n,0,x)=Im(sum(e
ni
,n,0,x))=Im((e
i(x+1)
-1)/(e
i
-1))
So reindexing, we get:
sum(sin(n),n,1,x)=Im(sum(e
ni
,n,1,x))=Im((e
i(x+1)
-1)/(e
i
-1)-1)
sum(sin(n),n,1,x)=Im(sum(e
ni
,n,1,x))=Im((e
i(x+1)
-1)/(e
i
-1)) (this is because "-1" is not imaginary, so it doesn't matter)
Now we look back
Im((e
i(x+1)
-1)/(e
i
-1))=sin(x)/2+cos(x)sum((-1)
2
n
|B
2n
|/(2n)!,n,0,x)
Im((e
i(x+1)
-1)/(cos(x)(e
i
-1)))=tan(x)/2+sum((-1)
2
n
|B
2n
|/(2n)!,n,0,x)
Im((e
i(x+1)
-1)/(cos(x)(e
i
-1)))=tan(x)/2+sum((-1)
2
n
|B
2n
|/(2n)!,n,0,x)
And all I can get from this is that the constant "sum((-1)
2
n
|B
2n
|/(2n)!,n,0,x)" changes values
This is why I love the Bernoulli numbers when manipulating them with alternating functions.
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Re: A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=2+(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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That's pretty interesting, I should show this to my math teacher. Also we need a prettyprint bbcode, like what Wikipedia have
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Re: A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=2+(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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xeda strikes again O.o
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Re: A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=2+(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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November 09, 2012, 12:06:46 pm »
I will analyse the Xeda resolution method since it use the Mac-Laurin Equation which is very usefull to calculate former divergent series numerically, just to fill a possible analytic continuation of the function.
OK! Let's show my full resolution!
Using Abel-Plana formula, the original serie is equall to the following integral:
sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity) = integral(sin(x),x,0,infinity) - integral(2*sinh(x)/(exp(2*pi*x)-1),x,0,infinity)
The first one won't make sense (is divergent) unless we apply a renormalization factor:
integral(sin(x),x,0,infinity) = lim t=0 of integral(exp(-t*x)*sin(x),x,0,infinity)
Apply integration by parts twice and solve the equation to the original integral as an unknow:
integral(exp(-t*x)*sin(x),x,0,infinity) = 1 / (1 + t^2)
Then: integral(sin(x),x,0,infinity) = lim t=0 of 1/(1+t^2) = 1
The second integral should be transformed in a series respecting to the denominator, since it is a nicelly absolute convergent integral, this means:
integral(2*sinh(x)/(exp(2*pi*x)-1),x,0,infinity) = - 1* sum of integral(2*sinh(x)*exp(2*pi*x*n),x,0,infinity) from n=0 to infinity
Now the new integral is easylly solved by integration by parts twice, and just apply the same trick just as before, to get:
integral(2*sinh(x)/(exp(2*pi*x)-1),x,0,infinity) = sum of 2/(4*pi^2*n^2 - 1) from n=0 to infinity.
And all this means I coulf convert a divergent series into a new one that is cleary convergent.
sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity) = 1 + sum(2/(4*pi^2*n^2-1),n,0,infinity).
And I will take a break to continue the proof in the next post.
Edit: Oh! I found a little mistake...
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Re: A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=2+(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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This sum doesn't converge, but the average value of a finite sum sum(sin(x),x,0,i) is approximately 0.91524, and 2+(1/2)*cotan(1/2) = 2.91524386... I think that 2+ doesn't really belong.
Also, solving the infinite series the easy way (multiply and cancel) gives cot(1/2)/2 without the 2+:
sin(x) = (e^ix - e^-ix)/2i
sum(sin(x),x,0,inf) = (... - e^-3i - e^-2i - e^-i + 0 + e^i + e^2i + e^3i + ...)/2i
sum(sin(x),x,0,inf)*e^(-i/2) = (... - e^(-5i/2) - e^(-3i/2) + 0 + e^(i/2) + e^(3i/2) + e^(5i/2) + ...)/2i
sum(sin(x),x,0,inf)*e^(i/2) = (... - e^(-5i/2) - e^(-3i/2) - e^(-i/2) + 0 + e^(3i/2) + e^(5i/2) + ...)/2i
sum(sin(x),x,0,inf)*(e^(-i/2) - e^(i/2)) = (e^(-i/2) + e^(i/2))/2i
sum(sin(x),x,0,inf)*-2i*sin(1/2) = cos(1/2)/i
sum(sin(x),x,0,inf) = cot(1/2)/2
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Re: A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=2+(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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The final clue to solve this problem just needs the Euler Formula of sine:
sin(pi*x) / (pi*x) = product(1-x^2/n^2,n,1,infinity)
Apply the logarithmic derivative of the Euler Formula of sine and you get:
pi*cotan(pi*x) = 1/x + sum(2*x/(x^2-n^2),n,1,infinity)
(This equation is main key to solve the Euler Problem to establish the semi-rational values of Riemann Zeta Function in terms of Bernoulli Numbers
)
This means if I split the series (since n=0 term is absent, so just expand it):
sum(2/(4*pi^2*n^2-1),n,0,infinity) = -2 + sum(2/(4*pi^2*n^2-1),n,1,infinity)
So is just the cotangent series, when it will make clear when split the common terms:
2/(4*pi^2*n^2-1) = 2 / (4 * pi^2 (n^2 - 1/(4 * pi^2)), this means x= -1/2*pi
And so, will get:
-pi*cotan(-1/2) = -(2*pi) - sum (2/(2*pi*(1/(4*x^2)-n^2)
To fix the discripancy, then just divide all terms by (2*pi), and we proofed that:
sum(2/(4*pi^2*n^2-1),n,1,infinity) = 1 - (1/2)*cotan(1/2), since the cotangent is a even function.
And finally at least, we obtain the final formula:
sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity) = 1 +1 - 2 + (1/2)*cotan(1/2) = (1/2)*cotan(1/2)
Edit: Little error detected!
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Re: A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=2+(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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That is pretty cool o.o
@Goplat: That is brilliant o.o
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Re: A Math Challenge: Proof that sum(sin(x),x,0,infinity)=2+(1/2)*cotan(1/2)
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After some review, the sum of sin(x) from x=0 to infinity is really (1/2)*cotan(1/2).
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