Hello list,
Today, a collegue of me presented me the following integral:
g(x) := exp( -( (a-b*cos(x))^2 + (c-b*sin(x))^2 ) );
integrate((g(x))^2, x, 0, 2*%pi);
He claims he was able to solve this integral in terms of Bessel functions, but
for practical reasons, he would like to be able to obtain the value of the
integral with a CAS. He has tried Maple, but he wasn't able to solve it.
I wanted to try it with Maxima... the above 2 lines of code are my attempt,
but apparently, Maxima can't handle it this way.
Are there any (Maxima) tricks I can use in order to obtain a solution with
Maxima?
Thanks,
Bart
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