Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-year-1-of-the-natural-sciences-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2005/paper-1/11/a/solution

Since is odd and absolutely integrable, the two signed half-line integrals cancel:
Absolute integrability follows from Gaussian decay dominating the polynomial factor; no principal-value interpretation is needed.

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