Question: Maple is unable to evaluate an integral

Hi,

For the paste several years, I have occasionally tested Maple on a simple integral,

simplify(int( exp(-I*k*x)/cosh(x), x=-infinity..infinity) assuming k,real);

The integral is returned unevaluated. There is no problems related to the complex exponential,

since also e.g.

simplify(int( cos(k*x)/cosh(x), x=0..infinity) assuming k,real);

and other variants are not evaluated.

Turning to the inbuilt fourier function (inttrans package) also does not work.

Evaluating laplace(1/cosh(x),x,s), and subsequently substituting s=I*k and s=-I*k and summing WORKS,

but gives (unnecessarily) an ugly result which it cannot simplify.

Finally, subtracting the (manually simplified) correct expression and simplifying gives 0 as

verification. I can not see any technical explanation for this bug.

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