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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ib Paper 1 13F Solution by
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Jordan lemma states that if and is analytic in the upper half-plane outside a fixed circle, withthen on the upper semicircle ,Indeed, . Using symmetry and on gives
The residue of at an isolated singularity is the coefficient of in its Laurent series, equivalentlyIf , the Taylor expansion of the analytic function shows that
For the real integral, apply contour integration in the upper half-plane toJordan's lemma removes the semicircular arc. The only enclosed singularity is the double pole at , whose residue isThe residue theorem therefore givesIts real part vanishes because is an odd function, while its imaginary part is the requested integral. Hence
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