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What is the closed form formula (pdf) for a multivariate Rayleigh distribution. Is it -
$x^T \Sigma^{-1} x \times \exp(\frac{-x^T \Sigma^{-1} x}{2})$
How do you prove it is from the exponential family?
See this 2003 paper by Ranjan Mallik.