2.I.8E

Further Complex Methods
Part II, 2006

The function F(t)F(t) is defined, for Ret>1\operatorname{Re} t>-1, by

F(t)=0uteu1+uduF(t)=\int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{u^{t} e^{-u}}{1+u} d u

and by analytic continuation elsewhere in the complex tt-plane. By considering the integral of a suitable function round a Hankel contour, obtain the analytic continuation of F(t)F(t) and hence show that singularities of F(t)F(t) can occur only at z=1,2,3,z=-1,-2,-3, \ldots.