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In mathematics , the scale convolution of two functions
s
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t
)
{\displaystyle s(t)}
r
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t
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{\displaystyle r(t)}
logarithmic convolution is defined as the function
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{\displaystyle s*_{l}r(t)=r*_{l}s(t)=\int _{0}^{\infty }s\left({\frac {t}{a}}\right)r(a)\,{\frac {da}{a}}}
when this quantity exists.
Results
The logarithmic convolution can be related to the ordinary convolution by changing the variable from
t
{\displaystyle t}
v
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log
t
{\displaystyle v=\log t}
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{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}s*_{l}r(t)&=\int _{0}^{\infty }s\left({\frac {t}{a}}\right)r(a)\,{\frac {da}{a}}\\&=\int _{-\infty }^{\infty }s\left({\frac {t}{e^{u}}}\right)r(e^{u})\,du\\&=\int _{-\infty }^{\infty }s\left(e^{\log t-u}\right)r(e^{u})\,du.\end{aligned}}}
Define
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=
s
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e
v
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{\displaystyle f(v)=s(e^{v})}
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{\displaystyle g(v)=r(e^{v})}
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log
t
{\displaystyle v=\log t}
s
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{\displaystyle s*_{l}r(v)=f*g(v)=g*f(v)=r*_{l}s(v).}
References
External Link
This article incorporates material from logarithmic convolution on PlanetMath , which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License .
