Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2006/ii/paper-3/31e/a/solution

Suppress , put and . Removing the pole gives the additive jump
The upper analytic function is and the lower analytic function is . The Cauchy integral formula and the Sokhotski–Plemelj formula solve this jump as the upper and lower boundary values of . At the lower point , with , this gives .
The rational part can be evaluated by closing the contour upward: . Thus the required linear integral equation is
It is supplemented by its value at , and follows under the usual decay or principal-value hypotheses of the stated Riemann-Hilbert problem.

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