Solution

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For a positively oriented simple closed contour, the residue theorem states that the integral of a function holomorphic on and inside the contour except at finitely many isolated interior singularities is times the sum of its residues. There must be no singularity on the contour.
Factor the denominator as . For , the upper semicircle encloses the two simple poles
The other two poles are in the lower half-plane. Since ,
Writing and using , , their numerator difference simplifies to
Thus for every the closed-contour integral is
To remove the arc, on we have and . For sufficiently large , the complex line integral estimate gives
The real-line integral is absolutely convergent. Its imaginary part is zero by oddness of . Therefore

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