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What is the integral representation of the exponential function $\textrm{e}^$e^{1/t}$ on $(0,\infty)$?

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What is the integral representation of the exponential function $\textrm{e}^{1/t}$ on $(0,\infty)$?

A function $q(x)$ is said to be completely monotonic on an interval $I$ if $q(x)$ has derivatives of all orders on $I$ and $(-1)^{n}q^{(n)}(x)\ge0$ for $x\in I$ and $n\ge0$. See Chapter 1 in the monograph [1] below.

A positive function $q(x)$ is said to be logarithmically completely monotonic on an interval $I\subseteq\mathbb{R}$ if it has derivatives of all orders on $I$ and its logarithm $\ln q(x)$ satisfies $(-1)^k[\ln q(x)]^{(k)}\ge0$ for $k\in\mathbb{N}=\{1,2,\dotsc\}$ on $I$. See Definition 1 in th article [2] below.

A logarithmically completely monotonic function on $I$ must be completely monotonic on $I$, but not conversely. See Theorem 1 in [2] and related texts in the references [1, 3, 4] below.

The famous Bernstein-Widder's theorem (on page 161 Theorem 12b in the book [5]) reads that a necessary and sufficient condition that $q(x)$ should be completely monotonic for $0<x<\infty$ is that \begin{equation} \label{berstein-1}\tag{w} q(x)=\int_0^\infty \textrm{e}^{-xt}\textrm{d}\,\alpha(t), \end{equation} where $\alpha(t)$ is non-decreasing and the integral \eqref{berstein-1} converges for $0<x<\infty$.

It is trivial that the exponential function $\textrm{e}^{1/x}$ is logarithmically completely monotonic on $(0,\infty)$. Consequently, by the above-mentioned Theorem 1 in [2], we conclude that the function $\textrm{e}^{1/x}$ is completely monotonic on $(0,\infty)$.

Motivated by the Bernstein-Widder's theorem mentioned above, we pose a question:

What is the explicit expression of the measure $\alpha(t)$ such that \begin{equation} \label{exp-frac1x}\tag{+} \textrm{e}^{1/x}=\int_0^\infty \textrm{e}^{-xt}\textrm{d}\,\alpha(t) \end{equation} converges for $0<x<\infty$? See Section 4 in the paper [6] below.

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  2. F. Qi and C.-P. Chen, A complete monotonicity property of the gamma function, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 296 (2004), 603--607; available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2004.04.026.
  3. C. Berg, Integral representation of some functions related to the gamma function, Mediterr. J. Math. 1 (2004), no. 4, 433--439; available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00009-004-0022-6.
  4. B.-N. Guo and F. Qi, A property of logarithmically absolutely monotonic functions and the logarithmically complete monotonicity of a power-exponential function, Politehn. Univ. Bucharest Sci. Bull. Ser. A Appl. Math. Phys. 72 (2010), no. 2, 21--30.
  5. D. V. Widder, The Laplace Transform, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1946.
  6. Xiao-Jing Zhang, Feng Qi, and Wen-Hui Li, Properties of three functions relating to the exponential function and the existence of partitions of unity, International Journal of Open Problems in Computer Science and Mathematics 5 (2012), no. 3, 122--127; available online at https://doi.org/10.12816/0006128.
  7. https://math.stackexchange.com/a/4262516/945479
  8. https://math.stackexchange.com/a/4262498/945479