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Cancellation of positive-integer gamma singularities on a Hankel contour

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Keep the circular portion of a Hankel contour at fixed nonzero radius. Its numerator I(z)=∫H​tz−1etdt is an entire function of z, because the contour avoids zero and its tails decay exponentially, uniformly on compact parameter sets. At a positive integer n, the integrand is single-valued and entire in t, so the bank integrals cancel and the circular integral is zero. Thus I(n)=0, canceling the simple zero of 2isin(πz) in the Hankel representation of the Gamma function. At a nonpositive integer −n, the circular integral instead gives 2πi/n!, yielding residue (−1)n/n!.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2005 / ii / Paper 2 / 8A / Solution

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