Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2007/ii/paper-1/14b/iii/solution

Because is not an integer, the coefficient is nonzero. The expression of in terms of the entire function can therefore have poles only at integral , and at most simple ones. Positive integers are removable: is already analytic there for , and analytic continuation in gives
Thus vanishes at those integers, cancelling the denominator zero. The Gamma function formula identifies the remaining singularities:
For nonintegral , these residues are nonzero, so every listed singularity is a genuine simple pole.

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