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The mellin integral transform in fractional calculus

  • Yuri Luchko EMAIL logo and Virginia Kiryakova

Abstract

In Fractional Calculus (FC), the Laplace and the Fourier integral transforms are traditionally employed for solving different problems. In this paper, we demonstrate the role of the Mellin integral transform in FC. We note that the Laplace integral transform, the sin- and cos-Fourier transforms, and the FC operators can all be represented as Mellin convolution type integral transforms. Moreover, the special functions of FC are all particular cases of the Fox H-function that is defined as an inverse Mellin transform of a quotient of some products of the Gamma functions.

In this paper, several known and some new applications of the Mellin integral transform to different problems in FC are exemplarily presented. The Mellin integral transform is employed to derive the inversion formulas for the FC operators and to evaluate some FC related integrals and in particular, the Laplace transforms and the sin- and cos-Fourier transforms of some special functions of FC. We show how to use the Mellin integral transform to prove the Post-Widder formula (and to obtain its new modi-fication), to derive some new Leibniz type rules for the FC operators, and to get new completely monotone functions from the known ones.

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