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Discrete analogs of the classical Kontorovich-Lebedev transforms are introduced and investigated. It involves series with the modified Bessel function or Macdonald function $K_{in}(x), x >0, n \in \mathbb{N}, i $ is the imaginary unit, and…
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We introduce functional Wulff shapes based on the classical construction for compact convex sets. With this new tool, we establish a functional version of Aleksandrov's variational lemma in the family of convex functions with compact…
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