Let
and consider the upper semicircular arc
Let
and form the closed contour
where is traversed from to , and is traversed from to .\
Suppose the contour integral
where and are positive integers which are relatively prime. Find .
[PYTHON] from sympy import symbols, integrate, exp, I, pi, Rational
Define the variable
theta = symbols('theta', real=True)
Define the path C: z = (5/2) * exp(i * theta) for theta from 0 to pi
r = Rational(5, 2) z = r * exp(I * theta) dz = z.diff(theta)
Define the function f(z) = z^2
f = z**2
Compute the integral over C
integral_C = integrate(f * dz, (theta, 0, pi))
print(f"Integral value: {integral_C}") [/PYTHON] ps_1 = """ Integral value: -125/12 """ [PYTHON] from math import gcd
numerator = 125 denominator = 12 common = gcd(numerator, denominator) print(f"GCD: {common}") print(f"p: {numerator // common}") print(f"q: {denominator // common}") print(f"p+q: {numerator // common + denominator // common}") [/PYTHON] ps_2 = """ GCD: 1 p: 125 q: 12 p+q: 137 """ The contour integral is given by
Since the function is entire (analytic everywhere in the complex plane), the integral is path-independent and depends only on the endpoints of the contour . The contour starts at and ends at .
An antiderivative of is . By the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus for contour integrals, we have:
Calculating the values:
Substituting these back into the expression for :
Simplifying the fraction by dividing the numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor, which is 2:
We are given that where and are relatively prime positive integers. Thus,
Checking for relative primality: and . They share no common factors, so they are relatively prime.
Finally, we find :
The integral of over the contour (the upper semicircle of radius traversed from to ) can be computed using the fundamental theorem of calculus for analytic functions, as has the antiderivative .
The Python code confirmed this result: . Thus, and . These are relatively prime since and . We need to find :