Reciprocal affine sine integral
ID: reciprocal-affine-sine-integral
For real , put . The change of variables changes the integral to . The roots are and , with only the first inside the circle because . The residue there is , and the residue theorem proves the displayed result. A shift of the angular variable replaces sine by cosine. More generally for real , the same answer follows by shifting by when , and the case follows directly.
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