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A Generalisation of Dirichlet's Multiple Integral

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Henry Jack
Henry Jack
Affiliation:
QUeen'S College, Dundee
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A previous note (2) showed how the integral of f(1x1+2x2++nxn) over the interior of a simplex could be reduced to a contour integral. The same idea is applied here in Theorems 1 and 2 to give a generalisation of Dirichlet's multiple integral ((1), pp. 169172). These results are then used in Theorem 3 to reduce an integral over all real n-dimensional space to a contour integral. In Theorem 4 an integral over the group of all 3 3 orthogonal matrices of determinant 1 is reduced to a contour integral. This result can be extended formally to the case of 4 4 matrices; beyond this it seems difficult to go.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , June 1965 , pp. 233 - 237
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Copyright Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1965

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