Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2002/ib/paper-4/17b/b/solution

Integrate around the positively oriented indented upper-half-plane contour. The outer semicircle runs from to ; the inner semicircle runs clockwise from to , excluding zero. The integrand is holomorphic inside this region, so Cauchy's integral theorem gives total integral zero.
The outer arc tends to zero by part (a) with and . On the inner arc , decreases from to zero, and
The two real segments combine as
Passing to the limits gives , and hence the Dirichlet integral
This is an ordinary conditionally convergent improper integral: the integrand tends to one at zero, and integration by parts gives a tail bounded by beyond . The clockwise indentation sign is essential.

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