Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2025 / ii / Paper 1 / 14E / a / Solution

Use the Hankel contour about the negative real axis: it starts at $-\infty$ below the cut, circles the origin counterclockwise, and returns to $-\infty$ above the cut. Take $-\pi <\arg t<\pi$. For $\mathrm{Re}s>0$, the small circle vanishes and the two banks giveThe gamma reflection formula then gives

Near zero,Subtracting any desired number of these terms makes the local contour integral converge in successively larger left half-planes. The resulting apparent singularities are removable after multiplication by $\Gamma (1-s)$, so the Hankel formula analytically continues $\beta$ to all $s\in \mathbb{C}$.

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