Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-year-2-of-the-natural-sciences-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2012/paper-2/4/ii/solution

On a positively oriented contour encircling once inside an annulus of analyticity, the Laurent series coefficients are
This follows by inserting the convergent Laurent expansion and integrating term by term: only the term with exponent has nonzero contour integral. Uniform convergence on compact circles in the annulus justifies that step.
For the function at hand,
The geometric series converges for , and the pole at zero excludes the centre. Thus
The coefficients are for and zero for . The coefficient formula gives the same result on : , and expansion of selects exactly those coefficients.
The annulus is essential. For , expand instead in inverse powers:
These are different Laurent expansions about the same centre on the two annuli separated by the singularity at . The series requested in the PDF is the inner one, not a global expansion.

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