I tried to answer a question from a user, as in the following link
Properties of the solution of the schrodinger equation
As in the comments I am aware that my answer is not satisfactory, but intuitively it seems so.
In other words it is well known that if one of the two functions f or g has compact support, and we assume that it is well-defined convolution of them, then we have that
supp(f∗g)⊂supp(f)+supp(g)
My question is a reversal, that is, if f has not compact support and g has compact support, we may conclude that the convolution does not have compact support?
Answer
This is not true. It is even possible that the convolution is identically zero. Consider f(x)≡1, which clearly does not have compact support, and let g(x) be any odd function with compact support. Then
(f∗g)(x)=∫∞−∞g(y)dy=0.
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