Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2021 / ib / Paper 1 / 12G / a / Solution

The Laurent theorem says that if $f$ is analytic on an annulusthen it has a unique Laurent seriesconverging locally uniformly on that annulus, wherefor any positively oriented circle $C$ in the annulus around $a$.

An isolated singularity at $a$ is a point at which $f$ is not analytic although it is analytic on some punctured neighbourhood. It is removable when every $c_n$ with $n<0$ vanishes; it is a pole of order $m$ when $c_{-m}\ne 0$ and $c_n=0$ for $n<-m$; and it is essential when infinitely many negative-index coefficients are nonzero.

For $0<|z|<1$,For $|z|>1$,The coefficients are unique after the annulus is fixed; these expansions differ because they represent the function on different annuli. At zero the first expansion has principal part $-z^{-1}$, so zero is a simple pole with residue $-1$.

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