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Consider the complex gamma function, denoted by $\Gamma(\sigma+it)$.

Now, let's fix $\sigma$ and let t vary. Then consider the following expression:

$$|\Gamma(\sigma+it)|^2$$

For any choice of $\sigma$ such that $\Gamma(\sigma)$ isn't a pole, this will appear to be (almost) a two-sided probability density function, save for that it isn't normalized. It decays around as quickly as $e^{-|t|}$, somewhat resembles the function $e^{-\sqrt{1+t^2}}$, and appears related to the hyperbolic distribution.

  1. Is there a precise closed-form expression for this function in terms of elementary or Louvillian functions?

  2. Is there a name for this probability distribution (assuming it's normalized)?

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This is called Generalized Hyperbolic Secant Distributions. See Generalized Hyperbolic Secant Distributions of W. L. Harkness and M. L. Harkness (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2283852). In particular, see equation (3) in that paper and use the fact that $\overline{\Gamma(z)}=\Gamma(\bar z)$

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