The Titchmarsh convolution theorem is named after Edward Charles Titchmarsh, a British mathematician. The theorem describes the properties of the support of the convolution of two functions.
E.C. Titchmarsh proved the following theorem in 1926:
This result, known as the Titchmarsh convolution theorem, can be restated in the following form:
This theorem essentially states that the well-known inclusion
is sharp at the boundary.
The higher-dimensional generalization in terms of the convex hull of the supports was proved by J.-L. Lions in 1951:
Above, denotes the convex hull of the set denotes the space of distributions with compact support.