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Convolute two Lorentzain (Cauchy) functions?

Posted 7 years ago

I tried

Convolve[PDF[CauchyDistribution[0, mu1], x], PDF[CauchyDistribution[0, mu2], x], x, y]

It does not work.

Any one can give me any thought?

Thanks!

POSTED BY: Tony Wang
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It does work for me on:

$Version
(*"11.2.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (September 11, 2017)"*)

Taking a bit time to compute though:

conv = Convolve[PDF[CauchyDistribution[0, mu1], x], PDF[CauchyDistribution[0, mu2], x], x, y];

conv // PowerExpand // FullSimplify

$$\frac{\text{mu1}+\text{mu2}}{\pi \left((\text{mu1}+\text{mu2})^2+y^2\right)}$$

POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov

Dear Vitaliy,

Thanks very much for your reply and pointing the usage of PowerExpand as well as FullSimplify to me!

This also works for v10.1

Cheers!

Tony

POSTED BY: Tony Wang
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