Calculation of local formal Mellin transforms

Much recent work has been done on the local Fourier transforms for connections on the punctured formal disk. Specifically, the local Fourier transforms have been introduced, shown to induce certain equivalences of categories, and explicit formulas have been found to calculate them. In this paper, we prove analogous results in a similar situation, the local Mellin transforms for connections on the punctured formal disk. Specifically, we introduce the local Mellin transforms and show that they induce equivalences between certain categories of vector spaces with connection and vector spaces with invertible difference operators, as well as find formulas for explicit calculation in the same spirit as the calculations for the local Fourier transforms.