Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2002/iii/paper-48/2/b/solution

Fix a small , for example , independently of . Taking imaginary parts of the identity in part (a) gives
The parameter-shift remainder bound for a logarithmic Laplace integral makes the last term , smaller than for every fixed .
The endpoint function is analytic near zero. For any fixed , its Taylor expansion is
Integrating this expansion against uses
while the error is and the extension from to infinity contributes an exponentially small tail. This is Watson's lemma, and gives
Equivalently the coefficients have the stated exponential generating function . In particular,
Thus the apparent term vanishes: the first nonzero terms are . The derivatives of the gamma function supply the successive logarithmic coefficients.

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