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The Challenge of Sixfold Integrals: The Closed-Form Evaluation of Newton Potentials between Two Cubes

Folkmar Bornemann
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The challenge of explicitly evaluating, in elementary closed form, the weakly singular sixfold integrals for potentials and forces between two cubes has been taken up at various places in the mathematics and physics literature. It created some strikingly specific results, with an aura of arbitrariness, and a single intricate general procedure due to Hackbusch. Those scattered instances were mostly addressing the problem heads on, by successive integration while keeping track of a thicket of primitives generated at intermediate stages. In this paper we present a substantially easier and shorter approach, based on a Laplace transform of the kernel. We clearly exhibit the structure of the results as obtained by an explicit algorithm, just computing with rational polynomials. The method extends, up to the evaluation of single integrals, to higher dimensions. Among other examples, we easily reproduce Fornberg's startling closed form solution of Trefethen's two-cubes problem and Waldvogel's symmetric formula for the Newton potential of a rectangular cuboid.

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Folkmar Bornemann. 2022-04-25. The Challenge of Sixfold Integrals: The Closed-Form Evaluation of Newton Potentials between Two Cubes. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0254

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