Integral from inverse Gaussian process

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By Mathematica I know that

$$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\int^{\infty}_{0}(1-e^{i\theta x})x^{-3/2}e^{-\frac{b^{2}x}{2}}dx = -b+\sqrt{b^{2}-2i\theta}$$

but unfortunately I cannot compute it analytically. Does anyone have an idea how to bite that problem?

I got that integral from the triplet in the Levy-Khintchine formula calculation for inverse Gaussian process in "Introductory Lectures on Fluctuations of Levy Processes with Applications" by A.E. Kyprianou, where author in excercise 1.7 ask to show that $\int^{\infty}_{0}(1-e^{i\theta x})\Pi(dx) = \psi(\theta)$, where $\psi$ is the characteristic exponent and $\Pi$ is Levy measure.

As a hint, author recommends to use identity

$\int^{\infty}_{0}(1-e^{ir})r^{-\alpha -1}dr = - \Gamma(-\alpha)e^{-i\pi\alpha/2}$