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Past exam of the algebra, analysis and differential equations II course of the University of Oxford 2005 Analysis 5 i Solution by
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Integrate around the upper half-disc with the upper half-disc of radius about zero removed. The real segments run from to and to ; the small semicircle is clockwise. There are no poles inside this indented contour.
The large arc contribution tends to zero: its modulus is at most , which tends to zero by dominated convergence. On the small arc , decreases from to zero, so its integral tends to . The contour theorem consequently givesTaking imaginary parts is legitimate for each truncated integral. The imaginary integrand is continuous at zero after assigning its limiting value one, so the inner indentation can be removed. Therefore
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