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Aug 31, 2021 at 1:17 vote accept Andrew Yuan
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May 2, 2019 at 23:53 history edited DanielSank CC BY-SA 4.0
Remove decoy question
May 2, 2019 at 23:41 history edited Andrew Yuan CC BY-SA 4.0
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May 2, 2019 at 22:53 comment added DanielSank The question written here very specifically asks why $0^+$ instead of $0^-$, which is not the same as asking why there's an exponential function in the numerator in the first place. The difference between $0^+$ and $0^-$ is pretty much what's explained in the question I linked. Perhaps it would be best to be very clear about exactly what you want to know :-)
May 2, 2019 at 22:33 comment added Andrew Yuan @DanielSank I don't think the two are the same, because in the given link, the integral is actually rigorously well-defined as an improper integral or principle valued integral. This is due to the fact that the poles are simple and the rational function has a zero at $\infty$. The $e^{-ik_0 z_0}$ also seems to come from somewhere, whereas in my case, the convention $e^{i\omega 0^+}$ seems somewhat arbitrary.
May 2, 2019 at 20:38 comment added DanielSank I think this is almost a duplicate of complex-integration-by-shifting-the-contour.
May 2, 2019 at 20:35 history edited Qmechanic
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May 2, 2019 at 20:05 history asked Andrew Yuan CC BY-SA 4.0