Clausen's integral, sometimes called the log sine integral (Borwein and Bailey 2003, p. 88) is the
case of the Clausen function
where
is a dilogarithm.
Clausen's integral has the special value
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(3)
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where
is Catalan's constant (Borwein and Bailey 2003,
p. 89). Other identities include
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(4)
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where ,
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(5)
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where ,
and
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(6)
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where
is a Dirichlet L-series and (Borwein and Bailey 2003, pp. 89-90).
BBP-type formulas include
(Bailey 2000, Borwein and Bailey 2003, pp. 128-129).
See also
Clausen Function,
Lobachevsky's
Function
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References
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of the Function ."
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