Hi All,
I am trying to use maxima to manipulate sum infinite
sums. I am having a few problems but they all relate
to the small example below. This command
(C4) integrate(sum(sin(n*%PI*e/l),n,1,INF),e,0,l);
Has the results
(D4)
l*('LIMIT('SUM(COS(%PI*e*n/l)/n,n,1,INF),e,0,PLUS))/%PI
-l*('LIMIT('SUM(COS(%PI*e*n/l)/n,n,1,INF),e,l,MINUS))/%PI
yet a can (on paper) take the integral inside the sum
and integrate term by term to get:
(C5) integrate(sin(n*%PI*e/l),e,0,l);
(D5) l/(%PI*n)-l*COS(%PI*n)/(%PI*n)
The result is correct in D4 so my question is how do
get get maxima to evaluate the limit?
Thanks
Kevin