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Shomalit4ob5 Shomalit4ob5 2022-06-04

Textbooks that use notation with explicit argument variable in the upper bound x for "indefinite integrals."
I dare to ask a question similar to a closed one but more precise.
Are there any established textbooks or other serious published work that use x notation instead of for the so-called "indefinite integrals"?
(I believe I've seen it already somewhere, probably in the Internet, but I cannot find it now.)
So, I am looking for texts where the indefinite integral of cos would be written something like:
x cos ( t ) d t = sin ( x ) C
or x cos ( x ) d x = sin ( x ) + C .
(This notation looks more sensible and consistent with the one for definite integrals than the common one with bare .)
IMO, the indefinite integral of f on a given interval I of definition of f should not be defined as the set of antiderivatives of f on I but as the set of all functions F of the form
F ( x ) = a x f ( t ) d t + C , x I ,,
with a I and C a constant (or as a certain indefinite particular function of such form). In other words, I think that indefinite integrals should be defined in terms of definite integrals and not in terms of antiderivatives. (After all, the integral sign historically stood for a sum.)
In this case, the fact that the indefinite integral of a continuous function f on an interval I coincides with the set of antiderivatives of f on I is the contents of the first and the second fundamental theorems of calculus:
1. The first fundamental theorem of calculus says that every representative of the indefinite integral of f on I is an antiderivative of f on I, and
2. The second fundamental theorem of calculus says that every antiderivative of f on I is a representative of the indefinite integral of f on I (it is an easy corollary of the first one together with the mean value theorem).

Calculus 1Answered question
rs450nigglix2 rs450nigglix2 2022-05-28

Smoothness properties of partial antiderivatives
I'm wondering what can be said about the well-behavior (or lack thereof) of antiderivatives of multivariable functions.
For example, consider the function f ( x , y ) = 2 x y. If we take the antiderivative of this function with respect to x, we obtain F ( x , y ) = x 2 y + h ( y ) where h(y) is an arbitrary function of y. The curious thing is there are no restrictions on what h could be. h could be a well-behaved differentiable function, or it could be a nasty function like the Weierstrass function, which is differentiable nowhere, or even the completely discontinuous rational number detector h ( x ) = { 1 if  x  is rational 0 if  x  is irrational
In either case, F would not be differentiable with respect to y, but even so, the partial derivative F / x would be well-defined and will equal our original function f.
So obviously not every possible partial antiderivative will be differentiable with respect to the other variable, but clearly some are. If we choose h ( y ) = y, for example, then F is certainly differentiable with respect to y. In fact, as long as h is a differentiable function itself, F will be differentiable with respect to y.
My question is whether this holds true in general. If partial antiderivatives F exist for a multivariable function f with respect to one variable, is it always true that at least one such F will be differentiable with respect to the other variables?
I'm guessing the answer to this is No, but that raises the question of what requirements must we impose on the original function f to guarantee that a "nice" partial antiderivative exists. Is it enough that f be continuous? That f be fully differentiable? That f be continuously differentiable?
And even more generally, if I want to guarantee the existence of a partial antiderivative F that has some nice smoothness property (e.g. it is C 2 , or C 3 , etc.), what requirements must I impose on the original f to ensure this?

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