Generalized convolution for the Kontorovich-Lebedev, Fourier transforms and applications to acoustic fields (Q300674)

The Kontorovich-Lebedev transform of a function \(f\) is defined as \[ \mathcal{K}_{iw}[f](w) =\int_0^\infty K_{iw}(x) f(x) dx, \] where \(K_{iw}(x) \) is the Macdonald function. The inverse transform is given by \[ f(x)=\frac{2}{\pi^2 x}\int_0^\infty w \sinh \pi w K_{iw}(x)\mathcal{K}_{iw}[f] (w) dw. \] The authors introduce a generalized convolution for the Kontorovich-Lebedev transform as follows \[ \left( f\star h\right) =\frac{1}{\pi^2} \int_{\mathbb{R}_+^2} \left[ \sinh (u+v)e^{-x\cosh (u+v)} + \sinh (u-v)e^{-x\cosh (u-v)}\right] f(u) h(v) du\, dv, \] which leads to \[ \mathcal{K}_{iw} [f\star h]=\frac{1}{\sinh \pi w}\left( F_sf\right)(w) \left( F_c h\right) (w), \quad w>0, \] where \(F_s, F_c\) stand for the Fourier sine and cosine transforms, respectively, and \(f,h\) belong to either \(L^1(\mathbb{R}_+; dx)\) or \(L^2 (\mathbb{R}_+; dx).\) Consequently, from the inversion formula for the Kontorovich-Lebedev transform, we have \[ (f\star h)(x)= \frac{2}{\pi^2 x}\int_0^\infty w {K}_{iw}(x) (F_s f) (w) (F_c h) (w) dw, \quad w>0, \] for \(f,h \in L^2(\mathbb{R}_+ ; dx) .\) Furthermore, it is shown that if \(f, h \in L^2(\mathbb{R}_+; dx),\) then \((f\star h)\in L^2(\mathbb{R}_+; 2x^2 dx)\) and \[ \left\|f\star h\right\|_{L^2(\mathbb{R}_+; 2x^2dx)}\leq \frac{2}{\pi^2}\left\|f\right\|_{L^2(\mathbb{R}_+; dx)} \left\|h\right\|_{L^2(\mathbb{R}_+; dx)}. \] Similarly, if \(f, h \in L^1(\mathbb{R}_+; dx),\) then \((f\star h)\in L^1(\mathbb{R}_+; \frac{x}{\sqrt{x^2 +1}} dx),\) and \[ \left\|f\star h\right\|_{L^2(\mathbb{R}_+; x dx)}\leq \frac{2}{\pi^2}\left\|f\right\|_{L^1(\mathbb{R}_+; dx)} \left\|h\right\|_{L^1(\mathbb{R}_+; dx)}. \] The article is concluded with an application to acoustics.