Symbolic Integration in Weierstrass-like Extensions

Abstract

This paper studies the integration problem in differential fields that may involve quantities reminiscent of the Weierstrass $\wp$ function, which are defined by a first-order nonlinear differential equation. We extend the classical notion of special polynomials to elements of Weierstrass-like extensions and present algorithms for reduction in such extensions. As an application of these results, we derive some new formulae for integrals of powers of $\wp$.