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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2014 Paper 2 4 ii Solution by
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Use the principal branch of the complex logarithm for . Its branch cut is the ray , , lying below the real axis. Thus it is analytic in the upper half-plane, where the only pole of the integrand is .
Close the real interval by a large upper semicircle. The estimation lemma bounds the arc integral by , so it vanishes. The simple-pole residue isThe residue theorem then givesFor real , . Taking real parts and then using evenness of the real integrand yieldsBoth endpoints converge: the integrand is near zero and at infinity. This also agrees with the logarithmic parameter integral with Cauchy weight at parameter one.
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