Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-year-1-of-the-natural-sciences-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2001/paper-1/5/b/solution

Use , so and . Reversing the integration bounds gives, without evaluating either side,
For , the same change of variables gives
so . These are legitimate transformations of improper integrals: is integrable near zero, and is integrable at infinity. In particular is absolutely convergent, so no cancellation of divergent endpoints is being assumed.

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