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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 14E iii Solution by
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Write with . The amplitude is now the rational functionChoose to be a small positively oriented circle around the pole , and choose from along the negative real axis to . At zero the endpoint factor behaves as and vanishes; at negative infinity the exponential decays.
By the residue theorem, the finite-contour solution isEvery derivative term contains times a power of of degree at most , and the highest-degree term is nonzero. Henceup to a constant, where is a polynomial of degree . This is the negative-integer case of the Integer-parameter Laguerre contour residues.
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