Laurent expansion of rational function
The Laurent series expansion of a rational function
may often be determined using the uniqueness of Laurent series coefficients
in an annulus and applying geometric series. We will determine the expansion of
by the powers of .
We first have the partial fraction decomposition
(1) |
whence the principal part of the Laurent expansion contains . Taking into account the poles of we see that there are two possible annuli for the Laurent expansion:
a) The annulus . We can write
Thus
b) The annulus . Now we write
Accordingly
This latter Laurent expansion consists of negative powers only, but isn’t an essential singularity of , though.