Zermelo
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Hi all, I'm studying Complex Analysis and encountered a problem with calculating a residue of a function.
I'm supposed to calculate [imath]Res_{z=0} \ z\ cos^2 \frac{\pi}{z}[/imath].
I noticed that [math]0 \leq | z \cos^2 \frac{\pi}{z}| = | z|| \cos^2 \frac{\pi}{z}| \leq |z| \rightarrow 0 (z \rightarrow 0) => \lim_{z \rightarrow 0} z \cos^2 \frac{\pi}{z} = 0[/math]thus, z=0 is a removable singularity.
That means that [imath]Res_{z=0} \ z\ cos^2 \frac{\pi}{z} = 0[/imath], because the Laurent series has no singular coefficients ([imath]c_{-k} = 0,\ \forall k\in N[/imath]).
But in my class, by expanding the function into a Laurent series, we concluded that [math]c_{-1} = -\pi ^2[/math] (c-1 is the coefficient of 1/z in the Laurent series expansion), thus the residue is -pi ^2, and that's the result that Wolfram Alpha also provides.
What's wrong with my line of thought?
I'm supposed to calculate [imath]Res_{z=0} \ z\ cos^2 \frac{\pi}{z}[/imath].
I noticed that [math]0 \leq | z \cos^2 \frac{\pi}{z}| = | z|| \cos^2 \frac{\pi}{z}| \leq |z| \rightarrow 0 (z \rightarrow 0) => \lim_{z \rightarrow 0} z \cos^2 \frac{\pi}{z} = 0[/math]thus, z=0 is a removable singularity.
That means that [imath]Res_{z=0} \ z\ cos^2 \frac{\pi}{z} = 0[/imath], because the Laurent series has no singular coefficients ([imath]c_{-k} = 0,\ \forall k\in N[/imath]).
But in my class, by expanding the function into a Laurent series, we concluded that [math]c_{-1} = -\pi ^2[/math] (c-1 is the coefficient of 1/z in the Laurent series expansion), thus the residue is -pi ^2, and that's the result that Wolfram Alpha also provides.
What's wrong with my line of thought?