Integral $\int \frac{dx}{\tan x + \cot x + \csc x + \sec x}$

$$\int \frac{dx}{\tan x + \cot x + \csc x + \sec x}$$ $$\tan x + \cot x + \csc x + \sec x=\frac{\sin x + 1}{\cos x} +\frac{\cos x + 1}{\sin x}$$ $$= \frac{\sin x +\cos x +1}{\sin x \cos x}$$ $$t= \tan {\frac{x}{2}}$$ On solving , $$\frac{1}{\tan x + \cot x + \csc x + \sec x}=\frac{t(1- t)}{1+ t^2}$$ $$\implies \int \frac{\tan {\frac{x}{2}}(1-\tan {\frac{x}{2}})}{1+\tan^2 {\frac{x}{2}}}{dx}$$

I think, I have made the things more difficult. How can I proceed further? Is there any better substitution for it?

• $x=2\arctan(z)$ and everything becomes elementary – tired Jul 26 '16 at 16:16
• @tired It will increase the denominator and this will be difficult to integrate $$\frac{2z(1-z)}{(1+z^2)^2}{dz}$$ – Aakash Kumar Jul 26 '16 at 16:54
• @AakashKumar This is asking for partial fractions decomposition. Your denom is already factored. Tedious but doable. Set up: $\frac{Ax+B}{1+z^2}+\frac{Cx+D}{(1+z^2)^2}$ – imranfat Jul 26 '16 at 17:34
• @imranfat it is just tired i guess ;) – tired Jul 26 '16 at 17:46
• One could also simplify the integrand to $(\cos x+\sin x-1)/2$. Then it is really easy to integrate. – mickep Jul 26 '16 at 19:10

$\displaystyle\int \frac{dx}{\tan x + \cot x + \csc x + \sec x}=$

$\displaystyle\int\frac{\sin x\cos x}{1+\sin x+\cos x}\,dx=\int\frac{\sin x\cos x}{1+\sin x+\cos x}\cdot\frac{1-(\sin x+\cos x)}{1-(\sin x+\cos x)}\,dx$

$=\displaystyle\int\frac{\sin x\cos x(1-(\sin x+\cos x))}{1-(\sin x+\cos x)^2}\,dx=\int\frac{\sin x\cos x-\sin^2 x\cos x-\cos^2x\sin x}{-2\sin x\cos x}\,dx$

$\displaystyle=-\frac{1}{2}\int(1-\sin x-\cos x)\,dx=\frac{1}{2}(-x-\cos x+\sin x)+C$

\begin{aligned}\int \frac{1}{\frac{\sin(x)}{\cos(x)}\:+\:\frac{\cos(x)}{\sin(x)}\:+\:\frac{1}{\sin(x)}\:+\:\frac{1}{\cos(x)}}dx & = \int \:\frac{\sin \:\left(2x\right)}{2\left(\cos \:\left(x\right)+\sin \:\left(x\right)+1\right)}dx \\& =\frac{1}{2}\cdot \int \:\frac{\sin \left(2x\right)}{\cos \left(x\right)+\sin \left(x\right)+1}dx \\& =\frac{1}{2}\cdot \frac{1}{2}\cdot \int \:\frac{\sin \left(t\right)}{\sin \left(\frac{t}{2}\right)+\cos \left(\frac{t}{2}\right)+1}dt \\& =\frac{1}{2}\cdot \frac{1}{2}\cdot \int \:\sin \left(\frac{t}{2}\right)+\cos \left(\frac{t}{2}\right)-1dt \\& =\color{red}{\frac{1}{4}\left(-2x+2\sin \left(x\right)-2\cos \left(x\right)\right)+C} \end{aligned}

Applyied substitution: $$\color{blue}{t=2x,\quad \:dt=2dx}$$

A trigonometric formula can be used： \begin{align} &(\sin x+\cos x+1)(\sin x+\cos x-1)=\sin 2x\\ I&=\int\frac{\sin x\cos x}{\sin x+\cos x+1}dx=\int\frac{1}{2}(\sin x+\cos x-1)dx=\frac{1}{2}(-\cos x+\sin x-x)+C\\ \end{align}