Paper 1, Section II, A

Asymptotic Methods
Part II, 2011

A function f(n)f(n), defined for positive integer nn, has an asymptotic expansion for large nn of the following form:

f(n)k=0ak1n2k,nf(n) \sim \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} a_{k} \frac{1}{n^{2 k}}, \quad n \rightarrow \infty

What precisely does this mean?

Show that the integral

I(n)=02πcosnt1+t2dtI(n)=\int_{0}^{2 \pi} \frac{\cos n t}{1+t^{2}} d t

has an asymptotic expansion of the form ()(*). [The Riemann-Lebesgue lemma may be used without proof.] Evaluate the coefficients a0,a1a_{0}, a_{1} and a2a_{2}.