Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 ii Paper 3 6B Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
Use equal small excisions on the two sides of each real pole. The Cauchy principal value isFor , close the complex contour in the upper half-plane and indent above , leaving the poles outside the contour. The residue theorem and the vanishing of the large semicircle integral give the principal-value integral as times the sum of the two real-pole residues. Each clockwise indentation contributes times its residue. Sincethe sum is . Taking the real part yields the answerThe decay on the large arc follows directly from and the quadratic denominator.