A common engineering notational convention is: wikipedia
${\displaystyle f(x)*g(x)\,:=\underbrace {\int_{0}^{x}f(\tau )g(x-\tau )\,d\tau } _{(f*g)(x)}.}$
I want to write the following expression as the convolution of two functions. In the other words; what is the function $g(x)$ in the definition for the integral below:
\begin{equation} \frac{(\rho+1)^{1-\alpha}}{\Gamma(\alpha)} \int_{a}^{x}\left(x^{\rho+1}-\tau^{\rho+1}\right)^{\alpha-1} \tau^{\rho} f(\tau) \,d \tau \end{equation} where $\alpha$ and $\rho \neq-1$ are real numbers and $x > a$, $\Gamma$ is gamma function.
My Try: Let
\begin{align} k&=\tau^{\rho+1}\\ dk&=(\rho+1)\tau^{\rho}\,d \tau \implies \frac{dk}{(\rho+1)}=\tau^{\rho}\,d \tau. \end{align}
Substituting the last equality to the integral in the question, we have
\begin{equation} \frac{(\rho+1)^{-\alpha}}{\Gamma(\alpha)} \int_{a^{\rho}}^{x^{\rho}}\left(x^{\rho+1}-k\right)^{\alpha-1} f(k^{1/(\rho+1)})\, dk \end{equation}
And then?
P.S. If the last expression was
\begin{equation} \frac{(\rho+1)^{-\alpha}}{\Gamma(\alpha)} \int_{0}^{x}\left(x-k\right)^{\alpha-1} f(k)\, dk \end{equation} $g(x)$ would be as follows:
$$g(x)=\frac{(\rho+1)^{-\alpha}}{\Gamma(\alpha)} x^{\alpha-1}.$$
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, I've fixed it, but please verify that it's correct. $\endgroup$