Laplace transform of a "heat kernel" This question is closely releted to this question:
How do we solve the laplace transform of the Heat Kernel?
Let $A>0$ and
$$f(t) = \frac{A^2}{2\sqrt{\pi}t^\frac{3}{2}}e^{-\frac{A^2}{4t}}$$
Following the same computations as in the question I linked, one can prove that for $s \in \mathbb{R}$, $s\geq 0$ one has 
$$\mathcal{L[f](s) :=\int_0^{+\infty}e^{-st}f(t)\,dt}= e^{-A\sqrt{s}}$$
(see also https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aoms/1177731708 at page 252 )
Is this formula true also for $s \in \mathbb{C}, \mathrm{Re(s)} \geq 0$, thinking the square root of $s$ as the principal branch of the root (i.e. the square root of $s$ with positive real part)?
 A: I hope this is helpful, I was originally only validating your quoted identity with my statement. I think the validity of the complex plane can be carried through the following procedure.
If we consider the function to be a function of $A$, we can take the Mellin transform with respect to $A$. This is essentially the Mellin transform of $A^2 f(A^2)$ which is then equivalent to the transform of $\frac{1}{2}f(\frac{2+s}{2})$ by transform rules. 
The transform of an exponential is valid for the entire complex plane, because the gamma function can be extended to the whole plane except for non-positive integers.
We can then calculate that 
$$
\mathcal{M}_A[f](s) =\frac{2^{\frac{s}{2}+\frac{s+2}{2}-1} \left(\frac{1}{t}\right)^{\frac{1}{2} (-s-2)} \Gamma \left(\frac{s}{2}+1\right)}{\sqrt{\pi } t^{3/2}} \\
\mathcal{M}_A[f](s) =\frac{2^s \left(\frac{1}{t}\right)^{-s/2} \Gamma \left(\frac{s}{2}+1\right)}{\sqrt{\pi } \sqrt{t}}
$$
it should then be true that 
$$
\mathcal{L}_t[t^k](q) = \frac{\Gamma(1+k)}{q^{1+k}}
$$
for $q>0$ and $k>-1$, so
$$
\mathcal{L}_t[\mathcal{M}_A[f](s)](q) =\frac{2^s q^{-\frac{s}{2}-\frac{1}{2}} \Gamma \left(\frac{s}{2}+1\right) \Gamma \left(\frac{s+1}{2}\right)}{\sqrt{\pi }} , \;\; s>-1 \\
\mathcal{L}_t[\mathcal{M}_A[f](s)](q) = q^{-\frac{s}{2}-\frac{1}{2}} \Gamma (s+1)
$$
so now we need to take the inverse Mellin transform which is also well defined over then complex plane for this function, which gives
$$
A e^{-A \sqrt{q}}
$$
let me know if anything is unclear.
