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Discrete analogs of the classical Mehler-Fock transforms are introduced and investigated. It involves series with the associated Legendre function $P^\mu_{in-1/2}(x), x > 1,\ {\rm Re} \mu < 1/2, \ n \in \mathbb{N}, i $ is the imaginary…
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The momentum of a free massive particle, invariant under translation, thereby realizes a trivial representation of the translation group. By allowing nontrivial reps of translations, momentum changes with translation, a recipe for force.…
A Noether-enhanced Legendre transformation from Lagrange densities to energy-momentum tensors is developed into an alternative framework for formulating classical field equations. This approach offers direct access to the Hamiltonian while…
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For each $f\in L^p({\mathbb R)}$ ($1\leq p<\infty$) it is shown that the Fourier transform is the distributional derivative of a H\"older continuous function. For each $p$ a norm is defined so that the space Fourier transforms is…
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