Primitive of Square of Hyperbolic Cosecant Function

Theorem

$\ds \int \csch^2 x \rd x = -\coth x + C$

where $C$ is an arbitrary constant.

Proof

From Derivative of Hyperbolic Cotangent:

$\map {\dfrac \d {\d x} } {\coth x} = -\csch^2 x$

The result follows from the definition of primitive.

$\blacksquare$

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