The Cauchy integral theorem states that if is holomorphic on a simply connected domain, then its integral around every closed piecewise smooth contour in that domain is zero.
Put . Completing the square gives
After the change of variable , the integral runs along the horizontal line . The integrand is entire. Apply Cauchy's theorem to a rectangle joining this line to the real axis; the two vertical integrals tend to zero as their real parts tend to , because . The contour may therefore be shifted to the real line. Hence the Fourier transform of a Gaussian gives
Normalizability requires . Since
the given Gaussian integral gives
Also , so integration by parts yields
Therefore
These are the second moments of a complex Gaussian wave packet.
Newton's method for minimization uses
For a quantitative local bound, suppose on a convex neighbourhood containing the iterates that
with , and let be the minimizer. The integral form of the gradient and the Hessian Lipschitz bound give the quadratic convergence bound for Newton's method
If , induction yields
Since ,
A function is holomorphic when it is complex differentiable at every point of the open connected set . Morera's theorem states that a continuous function on a domain is holomorphic if its integral around every triangle whose interior lies in the domain is zero.
The integrand is continuous jointly in on , so the displayed integral defines a continuous function. For any triangle , Fubini's theorem and the Cauchy integral theorem give
Morera's theorem therefore proves that is entire.
The function is holomorphic on but has no antiderivative there, because an antiderivative would integrate to zero around every closed curve whereas
This is the standard period obstruction to a holomorphic antiderivative.
Define the two shell integrals
For an external , the part of the interaction gives the scalar tadpole coefficient , while gives . Interchanging the components gives
When the masses agree, and both formulas reduce to with .
Let the source's hydrogen-ionizing photon production rate be
where is the hydrogen ionization energy. The idealized Strömgren sphere has an almost fully ionized interior and a thin ionization front. In photoionization equilibrium, every ionization is balanced by a Case B recombination, so spherical symmetry gives
For pure hydrogen of constant number density , the interior has , and the Strömgren radius is therefore
Now let the effective number of dust grains per hydrogen nucleus be , so the dust absorption coefficient is . If is the ionizing-photon rate crossing the sphere of radius , recombinations and dust absorption give the linear ordinary differential equation
If denotes a dust mass fraction instead, the grain mass and gas mean particle mass are simply absorbed into the effective product . Define the dust optical depth
Multiplication by the integrating factor and integration to the dusty front gives its governing equation
The exponential function weights recombinations at large optical depth by the extra source photons that dust must remove before those photons reach that radius.
For constant , put and . The elementary integral
reduces the equation to
Equivalently, with and ,
Its dust-free limit is , while absorption makes for nonzero dust abundance.
An algebraic number is an algebraic integer when it is a root of a monic polynomial in .
If and are algebraic integers, the ring is a finitely generated -module. Multiplication by preserves this module, so the algebraic integer module criterion shows that is an algebraic integer.
The ring of integers of a quadratic field gives
since . For a direct verification, if with is integral, then its trace and norm are integers. Writing and reducing the norm condition in lowest terms shows first that can have denominator at most ; a denominator with odd numerator would require , which is impossible. Thus , and then the norm condition forces even, so . Conversely, every with is integral because is integral and algebraic integers form a ring.
Now let have degree and roots . Since
and , the integer cannot be ; hence . Thus is monic up to sign and is an algebraic integer.
Let be the product of all roots with modulus greater than one, counting multiplicity. Complex roots occur in conjugate pairs, so is real up to the signs of the real roots and
As a product of algebraic integers, is an algebraic integer; the equality forces . Therefore
is the absolute value of the product of the remaining conjugates, is rational, and is an algebraic integer. It is consequently a nonzero rational integer. Every remaining factor has modulus at most one, so this integer is at most one. It must equal one, and hence
This is the mahler-measure norm argument at measure two.
For , the substitution gives
Homogeneity of and the substitution give
Apply part (a), or equivalently the Minkowski integral inequality, to this integral and use the preceding scaling identity:
Conditioned on the jump-chain states, the successive holding times are independent exponentials with rates . Hence
equals the integral over with of
This simplex integral is unchanged by reversing the time portions and the rates attached to them. It is therefore
as required. This is holding-time reversal along a fixed CTMC jump path.
The Markov property at deterministic times gives
Thus is a discrete-time Markov chain with transition matrix
when the minimal chain is nonexplosive, .
For an irreducible chain, state is recurrent in continuous time exactly when
and it is recurrent for the skeleton exactly when . If , the event of staying at supplies
Integrating over each interval shows that the integral diverges exactly when the series does. Irreducibility then makes recurrence equivalent for the two chains. This is recurrence equivalence for a CTMC and its fixed-time skeleton.
On the finite state space, and
Therefore
The matrix semigroup satisfies . Integrating from to gives the backward integral equation
The classical one-particle phase-space integral is
The momentum integral is
Hence
For singularities , the Cauchy principal value is
where the assumed tail integrals make the two unbounded pieces meaningful. Equivalently, remove a symmetric interval of radius about each and take the limit of the remaining integral.