The European Physical Journal C

, 71:1806

# A new numerical method for inverse Laplace transforms used to obtain gluon distributions from the proton structure function

• Martin M. Block
• Loyal Durand
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

## Abstract

We recently derived a very accurate and fast new algorithm for numerically inverting the Laplace transforms needed to obtain gluon distributions from the proton structure function $$F_{2}^{\gamma p}(x,Q^{2})$$. We numerically inverted the function g(s), s being the variable in Laplace space, to G(v), where v is the variable in ordinary space. We have since discovered that the algorithm does not work if g(s)→0 less rapidly than 1/s as s→∞, e.g., as 1/s β for 0<β<1. In this note, we derive a new numerical algorithm for such cases, which holds for all positive and non-integer negative values of β. The new algorithm is exact if the original function G(v) is given by the product of a power v β−1 and a polynomial in v. We test the algorithm numerically for very small positive β, β=10−6 obtaining numerical results that imitate the Dirac delta function δ(v). We also devolve the published MSTW2008LO gluon distribution at virtuality Q 2=5 GeV2 down to the lower virtuality Q 2=1.69 GeV2. For devolution, β is negative, giving rise to inverse Laplace transforms that are distributions and not proper functions. This requires us to introduce the concept of Hadamard Finite Part integrals, which we discuss in detail.

## Keywords

Dirac Delta Function Gluon Distribution Fractional Error Convolution Integral Complex Conjugate Pair
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