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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 ii Paper 3 31E a Solution by
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Suppress , put and . Removing the pole gives the additive jumpThe 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 isIt 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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