This question is for experts in asymptotic analysis, in particular expansions of integrals.
Consider the following type of integral
$$ I(\ell) = \ell^2\int_{[0,2\pi]^2}\frac{dk dq}{(2\pi)^2} \frac{\text{sinc}^2((k-q)\ell/2)}{\text{sinc}^2((k-q)/2)}\left[e^{ \beta (\epsilon(k)-\epsilon(q))}-1\right]\frac{n(k)(1-n(q))}{\beta(\epsilon(k) -\epsilon(q))} $$
where
$$ \text{sinc}(x) = \frac{\sin(x)}{x} $$
is the cardinal sine and
$$ n(k) = \frac{1}{e^{-\beta(\cos k + \mu)}+1} $$
is a kind of Fermi-Dirac distribution and
$$ \epsilon(k) = -\cos k - \mu\,. $$
I am interested in understanding the behavior of $I(\ell)$ when $\mathbb{N}\ni\ell\to+\infty$. In particular I consider the case where $\beta>0$ and $\mu\in[-1,1]$ are fixed and do not scale with $\ell$. I am familiar with standard methods like stationary phase, Laplace and steepest descent for one dimensional integrals but it looks like the story for higher dimensions is much more complicated. Googling around I found these integrals appear a lot in scattering theory of light where even higher dimensional analogs are needed.
The leading order in $\ell$ is just
$$ I(\ell) \sim \ell\int_{[0,2\pi]}\frac{dk}{2\pi} n(k) (1-n(k)) $$
because
$$ \lim_{\ell \to +\infty}\ell\,\text{sinc}^2(\ell x/2) = 2\pi \delta(x) $$
in the sense of distributions. So the leading order is linear in $\ell$. What I would like to know is whether there is a way to go further. On physical grounds I expect that
$$ I(\ell) = a_1 \ell + a_2 \log\ell + a_3 + O(\ell^{-1}) $$
where $a_i$ are finite constants. I would already be happy to understand how to systematically get $a_2$ and maybe that will shed light on how to go further and how to approach the general case for other types of integrals.
Thank you very much for the help.
EDIT
After thinking some time I realized that my expectations where wrong and I give an argument below. Making it rigorous will be easy. You are welcome to prove me wrong.
First we recognize that
$$\tag{1} \ell^2\frac{\text{sinc}^2(\ell x/2)}{\text{sinc}^2(x/2)} = \ell F_\ell(x) $$
where $F_\ell(x)$ is the famous Fejer kernel
$$ F_\ell(x) = \frac{1}{\ell}\frac{\sin^2(\ell x/2)}{\sin^2(x/2)}\,. $$
Fortunately quite few things are known for this kernel. The most important property is that for any continuous function $f$ on $[-\pi,\pi]$ (and so uniformly continuous) we have that
$$ (F_\ell * f)(t) = \frac{1}{2\pi}\int_{-\pi}^\pi F_\ell(x)f(t-x)\to f $$
uniformly in $t$. Furthermore it is known that for any $\delta>0$
$$ \int_{\delta<|t|<\pi}F_\ell(x) f(x) \to 0 $$
also uniformly by virtue of a simple bound. Indeed for $\delta<|t|<\pi$ we have that $|\sin(\ell x/2)|\leq 1$ and so
$$\tag{2} \left|\int_{\delta<|t|<\pi}F_\ell(x) f(x)\right| \leq \frac{C}{\ell}\,. $$ where $C$ depends on $f(x) / \sin^2(x/2)$ only. Note that in that region the bound is valid because the Fejer kernel is not singular anymore.
Now look at $I(\ell)$ and consider the inner integral over $k$ (Fubini should ensure it's the same looking at $q$). This is a convolution integral where $q$ is a spectator. We can split the integral in the regions $|k|<\delta$ and $\delta<|k|<\pi$. The first one converges to the value of the function at $k=q$ (and it is the Dirac delta contribution). The integral over the second region is bounded as in $(2)$ but this time the constant $C$ will depend on $q$. Taking the limit $\ell\to+\infty$ and taking into account the extra factor $\ell$ in $(1)$ gives
$$ I(\ell) = a_1 \ell + O(1) $$
where $a_1$ is the Dirac delta contribution already written at the beginning of the post.
One might wonder whether it is possible to compute this constant and the subleading corrections.
Another question is what happens when $\beta=O(\ell)$. This is clearly not true anymore because the constant now depends on $\ell$ and other behaviors are possible.
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