For , close the -contour in the upper half-plane. Jordan lemma removes the large semicircle, and the only enclosed pole is the order- pole at . By the residue at a pole of order n,
The residue theorem therefore gives
To continue the integral itself, move the -contour downward locally as approaches and crosses the real axis, always keeping the pole above the contour. This analytic continuation by contour deformation defines
where passes below . Closing upward continues to enclose the pole, even when , so
there as well. The right-hand side is an entire function, so it is the unique analytic continuation of to the whole complex plane.