The integral above can be expressed as , where and are positive integers with odd. What is ?
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The finite product j = 1 ∏ 2 N sin ( j x ) can be written as a sum of cosines, with j = 1 ∏ 2 N sin ( j x ) ≡ j ≥ 0 ∑ a N , j cos ( j x ) in which case we have the integral ∫ 0 2 π j = 1 ∏ 2 N sin ( j x ) d x = 2 π a N , 0 We note that sin ( 2 N − 1 ) x sin 2 N x ≡ 2 1 [ cos x − cos ( 4 N − 1 ) x ] and hence j ≥ 0 ∑ a N , j cos ( j x ) ≡ 2 1 [ cos x − cos ( 4 N − 1 ) x ] j ≥ 0 ∑ a N − 1 , j cos ( j x ) ≡ 4 1 j ≥ 0 ∑ a N − 1 , j [ cos ( j + 1 ) x + cos ( j − 1 ) x − cos ( j + 4 N − 1 ) x − cos ( j − 4 N + 1 ) x ] and hence we can write a N , j = 4 − N b N , j where j ≥ 0 ∑ b N , j cos ( j x ) ≡ j ≥ 0 ∑ b N − 1 , j [ cos ( j + 1 ) x + cos ∣ j − 1 ∣ x − cos ( j + 4 N − 1 ) x − cos ∣ j − 4 N + 1 ∣ x ] and we have b 0 , 0 = 1 with b 0 , j = 0 for j ≥ 1 .
It is a simple matter to run a computer programme to calculate b 1 0 1 0 , 0 . The maximum required value of j in b N , j is ∑ j = 1 N ( 4 j − 1 ) = N ( 2 N + 1 ) , so j ≤ 2 0 4 1 2 1 0 when N = 1 0 1 0 , so we only need a finite-dimensional array b i , j to do the calculations. The end result is b 1 0 1 0 , 0 = 1 5 7 4 4 0 8 4 6 4 , which makes the desired integral 2 π a 1 0 1 0 , 0 = 2 2 0 2 0 2 π × 2 4 × 9 8 5 9 0 0 5 2 9 = 2 2 0 1 5 9 8 5 9 0 0 5 2 9 π
The answer is 9 8 5 9 0 0 5 2 9 + 2 0 1 5 = 9 8 5 9 0 2 5 4 4 .
Finding the coefficient b N , 0 is a very hard problem. It is related to the problem of determining the number of subsets A of { 1 , 2 , . . . , 2 N } such that both A and its complement have the same sum. The equal-sum subset problem (for a general set of integers) is NP-hard.