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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2011 ii Paper 4 8E Solution by
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In the common sector , rotate the positive real contour clockwise to the negative imaginary axis. The large quarter-circle contributes zero because there. The rotated ray passes through the simple pole , whose residue isTake a small semicircular indentation into the right half-plane, excluding the pole from the clockwise contour. The downward ray traverses this semicircle clockwise, contributing in the limit. Thus the deformed downward integral is , and it equals the original integral. ConsequentlyThis half-residue, rather than a full residue, results from a pole lying on the rotated integration ray.
Parametrizing givesFor its tail decays exponentially. Near , subtract the pole coefficient before integrating; the remaining integrand is regular, and the principal-value pole term is explicit. This proves holomorphic dependence on throughout the upper half-plane, locally uniformly on compact subsets. Agreement in the overlap and the identity theorem therefore give the requested analytic continuation:
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