Write with . The amplitude is now the rational function
Choose to be a small positively oriented circle around the pole , and choose from along the negative real axis to . At zero the endpoint factor behaves as and vanishes; at negative infinity the exponential decays.
By the residue theorem, the finite-contour solution is
Every derivative term contains times a power of of degree at most , and the highest-degree term is nonzero. Hence
up to a constant, where is a polynomial of degree . This is the negative-integer case of the Integer-parameter Laguerre contour residues.