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Question: polylog vs. dilog

Question:polylog vs. dilog

digerdiga 390 Maple 2018
integration dilog polylog
January 06 2019
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This is not a problem per se, but more to understand the background.

restart;

f := polylog(2, -x);

int(f/(x+1), x);

convert(f, dilog);

int(%/(x+1), x)

 

The integration of the polylog maple is not capable of doing, but after converting to dilog it finds an anti derivative.

That leads to the question, why is dilog as a separate to polylog(2,*) implemented anyway? Why couldn't it all be done with the more general polylog function?

 

I'm also wondering why maple has difficulties to integrate

int(dilog(x+1)/(x+a),x)

for general a.
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