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Past exam of the metric spaces and complex analysis course of the University of Oxford 2017 5 b iii Solution by
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Use the upper half-disc of radius , with a clockwise semicircular indentation of radius above zero. The integrand is holomorphic inside that indented contour, so its total integral is zero. On the large arc,because , and . Its integral has modulus at most and vanishes as .
On the small clockwise arc, , so the integral tends to . Therefore the remaining real-axis integral satisfiesThe imaginary part is even and is an ordinary absolutely convergent integral: near zero its integrand tends to , and at infinity it is . Taking imaginary parts givesThe complex integral needs the Cauchy principal value because its real part has a singularity; the requested sine-product integral does not. This sine-product integral with inverse-square weight is an application of the upper-half-plane indentation rule.
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