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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ii Paper 1 14E c Solution by
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For , close the -contour in the upper half-plane. Jordan lemma removes the large semicircle, and the only enclosed pole is the order- pole at . By the residue at a pole of order n,The residue theorem therefore gives
To continue the integral itself, move the -contour downward locally as approaches and crosses the real axis, always keeping the pole above the contour. This analytic continuation by contour deformation defineswhere passes below . Closing upward continues to enclose the pole, even when , sothere as well. The right-hand side is an entire function, so it is the unique analytic continuation of to the whole complex plane.
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