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 Incoming links: Lemniscate of Bernoulli

x = r cos θ

y = r sin θ

. Away from the crossing, the lemniscate of Bernoulli has

r^{2} = cos 2 θ

. An explicit parametrization of its four quarter-arcs is

x = \pm t \frac{1 + t ^{2}}{2}, y = \pm t \frac{1 - t ^{2}}{2}, 0 \leq t \leq 1,

where the two signs are independent. Indeed

x^{2} + y^{2} = t^{2}

and

x^{2} - y^{2} = t^{4}

. The four arcs meet at the origin and at the two lobe endpoints, covering the entire curve.

For the upper-right quarter, take

0 \leq θ \leq π /4

r = cos 2 θ

. Differentiating gives

d r / d θ = - sin 2 θ / r

. Thus the arc length element satisfies

(\frac{d s}{d θ})^{2} = r^{2} + (\frac{d r}{d θ})^{2} = \frac{c o s ^{2} 2 θ + s i n ^{2} 2 θ}{c o s 2 θ} = \frac{1}{r ^{2}} .

t = r

, which decreases from one to zero. Since

∣ d t / d θ ∣ = 1 - t^{4} / t

d s = ∣ d t ∣/ 1 - t^{4}

. All four quarter-arcs have the same length, so

L = 4 \int_{0}^{1} \frac{d t}{1 - t ^{4}} .

The endpoint singularity is proportional to

(1 - t)^{- 1/2}

and is integrable. This is the geometric origin of the lemniscatic integral.