2.I.8A

Further Complex Methods
Part II, 2005

The Hankel representation of the gamma function is

Γ(z)=12isin(πz)(0+)tz1etdt\Gamma(z)=\frac{1}{2 i \sin (\pi z)} \int_{-\infty}^{\left(0^{+}\right)} t^{z-1} e^{t} d t

where the path of integration is the Hankel contour.

Use this representation to find the residue of Γ(z)\Gamma(z) at z=nz=-n, where nn is a nonnegative integer.

Is there a pole at z=nz=n, where nn is a positive integer? Justify your answer carefully, working only from the above representation of Γ(z)\Gamma(z).