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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2025 Paper 2 4 b Solution by
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Let . For , integrate over the upper semicircle. Jordan's lemma removes the arc, and the residue theorem at givesTaking the real part and using evenness in both and yieldsThe case follows directly from an inverse tangent primitive. The complex exponential is essential on the contour: the cosine alone has a growing exponential component.
For , differentiation under the integral sign gives . This derivative is a conditionally convergent improper integral; the Dirichlet test makes its tails uniform on compact subintervals of , justifying the differentiation. Setting givesFinally let . Its differentiated integrand is absolutely integrable, so and . HenceIf , and diverge at the origin, whereas is the corresponding Dirichlet integral.
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