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Past exam of the short options paper of the physics Prelims of the University of Oxford 2022 S01 1 Solution by
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Singularities. The complex exponential factors as . The second factor has an essential singularity at zero, and multiplication by the nonvanishing holomorphic function does not remove it. There are no other finite singularities. On the Riemann sphere, infinity is also an essential singularity, since .
Symmetry and integral formula. The identity and uniqueness of the Laurent series on give for every integer . The Laurent coefficient formula, on the positively oriented unit circle, givesThe imaginary part vanishes by the substitution . Hence
Polynomial contour integral. For an integer and integer , the binomial theorem gives . The residue theorem selects , that is . Therefore the correct complete statement isThe printed nonnegative-integer condition alone misses . For example satisfies that condition, but the integral is zero and the displayed factorial is undefined.
Explicit coefficients. Both Taylor series inconverge absolutely and uniformly on every compact annulus away from zero, so their product can be regrouped. For , put and . For arbitrary integer , use the already proved symmetry:Here is a modified Bessel function. The printed series is directly meaningful for ; for negative the absolute values, or an appropriately shifted lower summation limit, are essential.
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