The half-disc boundary contour #
For 0 < R, the boundary of the upper half-disc of radius R about the origin, traversed
counterclockwise on [-R, R + π]: the diameter along the real axis from -R to R, followed by
the semicircular arc from R back to -R, the arc carrying its angle in t - R.
Its distinguishing feature is that it passes through the origin rather than detouring around
it, so the origin is an on-curve point and the generalized winding number there is ½ — the value
strictly between the exterior 0 and the interior 1:
- the diameter contributes
0: the index integrand1 / tis odd, so its principal value over the symmetric interval vanishes (windingNumber_eq_zero_segment); - the arc contributes
½: it is a half-circle about its own centre, so its winding is its angular extentπ / 2π(windingNumber_circleMap_center_eq_half).
That ½ is exactly the hypothesis of the Hungerbühler–Wasem half-residue theorem
hasCauchyPV_half_residue, which is why this contour is the one HW's motivating example uses: a
Cauchy principal value along the real axis with a simple pole at the origin, where the classical
residue theorem does not apply because the pole lies on the contour.
Main results #
TauCeti.Contour.halfDiscBoundary— the contour, withhalfDiscBoundary_of_leandhalfDiscBoundary_of_ltevaluating its two branches andhalfDiscBoundary_left,halfDiscBoundary_rightits endpoints (equal, so the contour is closed).TauCeti.Contour.continuous_halfDiscBoundary— the two branches agree at the junction, so the contour is continuous.TauCeti.Contour.isPwC1ImmersionOn_halfDiscBoundary— it is a piecewise-C¹immersion, with the single breakpointR; this is the regularity hypothesis of the Hungerbühler–Wasem theorems.TauCeti.Contour.windingNumber_halfDiscBoundary— its generalized winding number about the origin is½.TauCeti.Contour.halfDiscBoundary_eq_zero_iff— the contour meets the origin exactly once, att = 0.TauCeti.Contour.halfDiscBoundary_im_eq_zero_or_norm_eq,TauCeti.Contour.im_halfDiscBoundary_nonneg, andTauCeti.Contour.norm_halfDiscBoundary_le— the contour lies in the closed upper half-disc on its parameter interval, withTauCeti.Contour.norm_halfDiscBoundary_eqpinning the arc to the circle itself.TauCeti.Contour.halfDiscBoundary_ne_of_im_pos_of_norm_lt— the contour avoids the open upper half-disc.TauCeti.Contour.deriv_halfDiscBoundary_of_lt_radiusandTauCeti.Contour.deriv_halfDiscBoundary_of_lt— before the junction the derivative is the real inclusion's, beyond it the circle map's at the shifted parameter.TauCeti.Contour.integral_halfDiscBoundary_arc— the[R, R + π]piece of the contour integral is thecircleMap 0 Rintegral over[0, π]; for0 < Rthat is the upper semicircle, the form Jordan's lemma bounds.TauCeti.Contour.flatOfOrder_halfDiscBoundary— both one-sided branches at the origin lie on the real line, so the contour is flat there to every order.TauCeti.Contour.conditionAprime_halfDiscBoundary— Hungerbühler–Wasem condition (A′) at the origin, for any integrand.
References #
- N. Hungerbühler, M. Wasem, Non-integer valued winding numbers and a generalized Residue Theorem, arXiv:1808.00997, Thm 3.3.
The half-disc boundary contour. On [-R, R + π]: the diameter t ↦ t for t ≤ R, then
the semicircular arc t ↦ R e^{i(t-R)} from R back to -R.
Instances For
Where the contour lives #
Each point of the half-disc contour is either real or on the circle. Up to the junction the
contour runs along the real diameter, beyond it along the circle of radius R; there is no third
possibility. This dichotomy is what keeps the contour out of the open upper half-disc.
Beyond the junction the half-disc contour has norm exactly R. At the junction itself the
contour is the real point R; past it, it is the circle of radius R.
The contour starts at -R.
The contour ends at -R, so it is closed.
The derivative on the open diameter. Strictly before the junction the half-disc boundary is the real inclusion on a whole neighbourhood, so the two derivatives agree.
The derivative on the open arc. Strictly beyond the junction the half-disc boundary
coincides with the shifted circle map on a whole neighbourhood, so its derivative is the circle
map's, evaluated at the shifted parameter. (At the junction t = R itself the contour has a
corner, and no such identity is claimed.)
The arc piece of the contour integral is the circle-map integral. Beyond the junction the
half-disc boundary is the circle map shifted by R, so translating the parameter identifies the
[R, R + π] piece of ∮_γ f with the integral of circleMap 0 R over [0, π]. The junction
t = R itself, where the contour has a corner, is a single point and does not affect the integral.
The identity holds for every R. For 0 < R the right-hand side is the upper semicircle
traversed counterclockwise — the form Jordan's lemma bounds; for R < 0 the same parametrization
traces the lower semicircle instead, and R = 0 is degenerate, circleMap 0 0 being the constant
path at the origin.
The half-disc boundary is continuous, the two branches agreeing at the junction t = R
(where circleMap 0 R 0 = R).
The half-disc boundary is a piecewise-C¹ immersion, with the single breakpoint R where
the diameter meets the arc. Off that breakpoint each piece is one of the two smooth branches: the
real inclusion, of derivative 1, or the shifted circle, of derivative R e^{i(t-R)} · i; both
are nonzero for 0 < R, so the tangent never vanishes.
The half-disc boundary has winding number ½ about the origin. The diameter through the
origin contributes 0 and the semicircular arc about it contributes ½.
The half-disc boundary meets the origin exactly once, at t = 0: on the diameter
γ t = t vanishes only there, and the arc stays at distance |R| from the origin.
The half-disc boundary is flat to every order at the origin. With tangent direction
v = 1 the perpendicular deviation |Im (γ t - γ 0)| vanishes identically near t = 0, which
is o of anything. For R > 0 that is because the contour is locally the real diameter; for the
degenerate radius R = 0 the arc collapses to the origin, so both one-sided branches still lie on
the real line.
Condition (A′) holds for the half-disc boundary at the origin, for any integrand. The
origin is met exactly once, the contour is flat there to every order (it is locally the real
diameter), and the basepoint γ(-R) = -R is not the origin, so that clause is vacuous.