Boundedness of Erdélyi--Kober Integrals and Mellin Fractional Integrals on Weighted Lebesgue Spaces

arXiv:2608.09401 2026 Architecture 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 1, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper defines a fractional integral whose useful transferable structure is a causal convolution in logarithmic scale, rather than ordinary additive coordinates. After setting x=e^s and t=xe^{-u}, the Erdelyi-Kober operator becomes a one-sided log-scale convolution with a kernel whose fractional order controls near-scale behavior and whose power parameter controls long-range decay. This suggests an interpretable, scale-equivariant mixer for feature pyramids or multiscale tokens, using a normalized analytic kernel instead of dense cross-scale attention.

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Erdelyi-Kober Log-Scale Mixer

Replace generic cross-scale mixing with a fixed-shape or lightly parameterized Erdelyi-Kober fractional convolution over logarithmic scale. The fractional order controls how strongly nearby scales are emphasized, while the exponential tail parameter controls the receptive field over distant scales, providing an interpretable alternative to dense cross-scale attention.

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Paper: Boundedness of Erdélyi--Kober Integrals and Mellin Fractional Integrals on Weighted Lebesgue Spaces arXiv:2608.09401