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Re:Breakthrough in inverse Laplace transform procedures by qppo on Friday June 19, 2020 @04:06PM (#23578369)
> Can anyone help me out here? Is there a problem/theorem the Laplace transform solves/proves which the Fourier transform doesn't?

BIBO stability of IIR systems

Re:Breakthrough in inverse Laplace transform procedures by dls2016 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:28AM (#23714345)
Interesting, but I'm not seeing what this has to do with Fourier or Laplace. Mathematically, the statement is: if x is L^{\infty} and h is L^1, then y=x*h is L^{\infty}. The proof of this is very routine... just write down the definition of the convolution and stare at it.

Now it's true that the Fourier transform is not well-behaved on L^{\infty}. Any book on harmonic analysis will discuss this point in great lengths. But the context in which these questions are discussed (singular integral operators on spaces like BMO, which contains L^{\infty}) doesn't tend to include the Laplace transform in a useful manner.

Someday I'll have to properly learn harmonic analysis to sort out these questions for myself.