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This is not a new result. Purpose of this work is to describe a method to search the analytical expression of the general real solution of the two-dimensional Laplace differential equation. This thing is not easy to find in scientific…
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The effect of nonlinear friction forces in quantum mechanics is studied via dissipative Madelung hydrodynamics. A new thermo-quantum diffusion equation is derived, which is solved for the particular case of quantum Brownian motion with a…
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The inversion theorem and convolution theorem of the conformable fractional Laplace transforms are developed. All the elementary properties of the classical Laplace transform are extended to the conformable fractional transform, and using…
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