Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2014/iii/paper-69/1/ii/solution

Apply Fourier inversion to the global relation on the real axis, extending by zero to negative . At an interior point this gives
The finite-time spectral boundary transforms are entire functions of . Define the upper decay domain
Orient from its left infinite end through to its right infinite end, so that lies to the left. Its finite point is , not zero. On the contour, ; the factor decays because .
For the boundary term, write . Between the real axis and , , so this factor has no exponential growth. Contour deformation and Jordan lemma, with the usual cutoffs for oscillatory integrals, therefore give
This is the requested complex-plane representation with the unknown finite-time spectral boundary transform still present. The decay domain must agree with the sign of the drift in the dispersion relation.

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