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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 2 31B Solution by
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Rotate the contour for the Gaussian integral through angle ; a small positive damping factor justifies the deformation and can then be removed. After scaling by , the oscillatory Gaussian integral with negative phase givesSimilarly, first scale and then rotate the positive ray through angle . Since , the cubic oscillatory Gamma integral gives
For fixed , consider the complex phaseIts unique interior stationary point iswhereThe endpoint contributions are , while the one-dimensional stationary-phase formula has order . Taking its real part proves the stationary-phase asymptotic for the generalized Bessel cosine integral:
For the phase is . Its stationary point has merged with the endpoint , whereUse the cubic endpoint stationary-phase scaling . The other endpoint and the region away from zero contribute only , soTherefore
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