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Past exam of the algebra, analysis and differential equations 1 course of the University of Oxford 2008 6 Solution by
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Let . For , close the interval by the upper semicircle, counterclockwise. Its only enclosed pole is , with residue . The residue theorem givesOn , and . Hence the arc is bounded byby the supplied estimate, with parameter .
For , close below, with clockwise orientation. The pole at lies outside, and the exponential decays there. Parametrizing the lower arc yields the same bound with in place of . Its contribution again tends to zero, and no residue remains. Therefore
The exponential selects the half-plane in which the closing arc decays
. Details. This is the contour-decay mechanism behind Jordan's lemma; the pole contributes only when the decaying closure encloses it.
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