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An Integral over the Interior of a Simplex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Henry Jack
Affiliation:
Queen's College, Dundee
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If f(z) is analytic in a suitable domain, it is shown how the integral of f1x1+…+αnxn) over the interior of a simplex may be reduced to the evaluation of a contour integral, in fact to an exercise in partial fractions.

The contour integral is expressed in two ways, according as the simplex is given in terms of its vertices or faces.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1962

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