Compatibility of real and complex Dirichlet integrals #
At positive real parameters the normalized complex integral is a probability expectation; the regularized integral differs by the Gamma factor of the total parameter. These identities hold for arbitrary integrands as identities of totalized Bochner integrals. They neither require nor invoke analytic continuation.
The complex multivariate beta function specializes to the real one.
For positive real parameters, the regularized complex density is the real Dirichlet probability density divided by the Gamma factor of the total parameter.
At positive real parameters the normalized complex density is the real probability density, regarded as complex-valued.
The normalized native complex Dirichlet integral is a probability expectation at positive real parameters.
The regularized native complex Dirichlet integral is the probability expectation divided by the Gamma factor of the total parameter.
Real-valued probability expectations can be recovered by specializing the complex Dirichlet integral in both its parameters and its integrand.