Jordan's lemma

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Statement

Suppose f is a function (possibly with isolated singularities) on an open subset U of C, that contains the real axis and upper half-plane H, such that f has no essential singularities in the strict upper half-plane, and only finitely many poles on the real axis and in the upper half-plane. Suppose further that:

limrsup|z|=r,zH|f(z)|=0

Then, if γr denotes the semicircle of radius r centered at the origin, and if a>0, we have:

limrγrf(z)eiazdz=0

Thus, we get:

PVf(x)eiaxdz=2πires(f;zj)

where the sum is taken over all poles in the upper half-plane.