Abstract
We construct a family of functions satisfying the heat equation
and show how they can be used to generate solutions to
indeterminate moment problems. The following cases are considered:
log-normal, generalized Stieltjes-Wigert, and
Research Article | Open Access
A Family of Heat Functions as Solutions of Indeterminate Moment Problems
Academic Editor: Piotr Mikusinski
Received07 Mar 2007
Accepted25 Jun 2007
Published24 Jul 2007
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Copyright © 2007 Ricardo Gómez and Marcos López-García. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.