Integrate eiz/z around an upper semicircle, indenting the origin by a small upper semicircle traversed clockwise. The integrand is holomorphic inside the indented contour. The large arc vanishes by Jordan's lemma, and the small arc contributes −iπ, soTaking imaginary and real parts yieldsThe first integrand has a removable singularity at zero and its tails converge conditionally by Dirichlet test for improper integrals. The second integral needs a principal value at zero; its zero also follows from oddness with symmetric exclusion. One must not assign an ordinary convergent integral to its singularity.
PV∫−∞∞xeixdx=iπ.
∫−∞∞xsinxdx=π,PV∫−∞∞xcosxdx=0.
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