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On a Generalisation of the Laplace Transformation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

A. Erdélyi
A. Erdélyi
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California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 4, California.
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On reading a recent paper by R. S. Varma (Varma 1949) I recalled that in May 1942 I investigated an integral transformation which is very similar to Varma's. Varma has

and points out that this reduces to a Laplace integral for k = ¼, m = ± ¼. Instead of (1), one could consider the integral

which was introduced by C. S. Meijer (Meijer 1940 b); this integral reduces to a Laplace integral whenever k = m + ½. Now, apart from comparatively unimportant factors, the nucleus of (2) is a fractional derivative or integral, as the case may be, of e−st, and on carrying out a fractional integration by parts, it appears that (2) is essentially the Laplace transform of a fractional integral or derivative of f. Thus, the whole theory of the transformation (2), including inversion formulae, representation theorems, etc., can be deduced from the well-known theory of the Laplace transformation. It is not quite clear that a similar reduction is possible for (1), although it is certainly possible when k = 0.

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , December 1954 , pp. 53 - 55
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1954

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