Question: Investigating the limits of the Maple integration engine.

Greetings to all. The title describes it well, I am writing about testing the limits of the Maple integration engine. A recent discussion at math.stackexchange.com features a family of integrals that involve the product of a power of the natural logarithm and a rational function, more precisely,

int((log(x))^n/(x^3+1), x=0..infinity);

These integrals can be evaluated recursively as described at the MSE link using a technique that generalizes to other types of rational factors. Unfortunately Maple apparently only finds a simple closed form for a few small initial values of n. The following transcript of a Maple session illustrates the problem. Mathematica was successful here. Also observe the memory allocation in the Maple session.

    |\^/|     Maple 18 (X86 64 LINUX)
._|\|   |/|_. Copyright (c) Maplesoft, a division of Waterloo Maple Inc. 2014
 \  MAPLE  /  All rights reserved. Maple is a trademark of
 <____ ____>  Waterloo Maple Inc.
      |       Type ? for help.
> restart; read `cl.maple`;
alpha := (n, k) ->

                                                           n
    -1/3 exp(1/3 I Pi + 2/3 I Pi k) (1/3 I Pi + 2/3 I Pi k)

Q := proc(n)
local res;
option remember;
    if n = 0 then return 2/9*sqrt(3)*Pi end if;
    res := -add(alpha(n + 1, k), k = 0 .. 2)/(n + 1) - add(
        binomial(n + 1, p)*(2*I*Pi)^(n - p)*Q(p),
        p = 0 .. n - 1)/(n + 1);
    simplify(res)
end proc

                               infinity
                              /               n
                             |          log(x)
              VERIF := n ->  |          ------- dx
                             |           3
                            /           x  + 1
                              0

> Q(6);
                                7  1/2
                          910 Pi  3
                          ------------
                              6561

> VERIF(6);
memory used=3.8MB, alloc=40.3MB, time=0.18
       7  1/2
9890 Pi  3       490    5  1/2
------------- + ----- Pi  3    Psi(1, 1/3)
   177147       19683

        490    5  1/2                10    3  1/2            2
     + ----- Pi  3    Psi(1, 2/3) + ---- Pi  3    Psi(1, 1/3)
       19683                        2187

        20   1/2   3
     + ---- 3    Pi  Psi(1, 2/3) Psi(1, 1/3)
       2187

        10    3  1/2            2    40                 4
     + ---- Pi  3    Psi(1, 2/3)  + ----- Psi(2, 2/3) Pi
       2187                         19683

        10   1/2               3
     + ---- 3    Pi Psi(1, 1/3)
       2187

       10               1/2               2
     + --- Psi(1, 2/3) 3    Pi Psi(1, 1/3)
       729

       10   1/2                           2
     + --- 3    Pi Psi(1, 1/3) Psi(1, 2/3)
       729

        10   1/2               3    40     4
     + ---- 3    Pi Psi(1, 2/3)  - ----- Pi  Psi(2, 1/3)
       2187                        19683

        20             2  1/2
     + ---- Psi(2, 2/3)  3    Pi
       6561

        40               1/2
     - ---- Psi(2, 2/3) 3    Psi(2, 1/3) Pi
       6561

        40    2
     + ---- Pi  Psi(2, 2/3) Psi(1, 1/3)
       2187

        40    2
     + ---- Pi  Psi(2, 2/3) Psi(1, 2/3)
       2187

        20   1/2            2
     + ---- 3    Psi(2, 1/3)  Pi
       6561

        40    2
     - ---- Pi  Psi(1, 1/3) Psi(2, 1/3)
       2187

        40    2
     - ---- Pi  Psi(1, 2/3) Psi(2, 1/3)
       2187

> evalf(Q(6));
                          725.5729634

> evalf(VERIF(6));
                          725.5729630

> quit
memory used=22.4MB, alloc=44.3MB, time=0.47
user@host:~/complex-logint$ math
Mathematica 10.0 for Linux x86 (64-bit)
Copyright 1988-2014 Wolfram Research, Inc.

In[1]:= Integrate[Log[z]^6/(1+z^3), {z, 0, Infinity}]

                7
          910 Pi
Out[1]= ------------
        2187 Sqrt[3]

In[2]:= N[Out[1]]

Out[2]= 725.573

In[3]:=
user@host:~/complex-logint$

My question for you all is what the appropriate techniques would be to get Maple to at least simplify the rather involved output from the integration engine to obtain a match of the closed form from the recursive equation.

Best regards, Marko Riedel.

cl-maple.txt