A general quantum Laplace transform

Abstract In this paper, we introduce a general quantum Laplace transform $\mathcal{L}_{\beta }$ L β and some of its properties associated with the general quantum difference operator ${D}_{\beta }f(t)= ({f(\beta (t))-f(t)} )/ ({ \beta (t)-t} )$ D β f ( t ) = ( f ( β ( t ) ) − f ( t ) ) / ( β ( t ) − t ) , β is a strictly increasing continuous function. In addition, we compute the β-Laplace transform of some fundamental functions. As application we solve some β-difference equations using the β-Laplace transform. Finally, we present the inverse β-Laplace transform $\mathcal{L}_{\beta }^{-1}$ L β − 1 .