Paper 2, Section II, A

Complex Analysis or Complex Methods
Part IB, 2012

By a suitable choice of contour show that, for 1<α<1-1<\alpha<1,

0xα1+x2 dx=π2cos(απ/2)\int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{\alpha}}{1+x^{2}} \mathrm{~d} x=\frac{\pi}{2 \cos (\alpha \pi / 2)}