Abstract
The notion of the principal value of an integral is generalized to treat higher order singularities. The principal value of an integral can be considered the "convergent part" of a divergent integral, an interpretation that is almost trivial for simple poles, but more meaningful for higher order poles. Application of this concept leads to a simple algorithm that may be applied to the evaluation of a class of integrals arising in mathematical physics. Many of these integrals frequently occur in the analytic and numerical evaluation of folding functions arising from the product of single-particle Green's functions.
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