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A Fr\'echet Lie group on distributions

Functional Analysis 2025-01-13 v2

Abstract

Solving non-autonomous systems of ordinary differential equations leads to consider a new product of bivariate distributions called the \star~product in the literature. This product, distinct from the convolution product, has recently been used to establish structural results concerning non-autonomous differential systems, yet its formal underpinnings remain unclear. We demonstrate that it is well-defined on the weak closure of the space of smooth functions on a compact subset of R2\mathbb{R}^2. We establish that a subset of this weak closure has the structure of a Fr\'{e}chet space D\mathcal{D}. The \star~product arises from the composition of endomorphisms of that space. Invertible elements of D\mathcal{D} form a dense subset of it and a Fr\'{e}chet Lie group for the operation \star. This product generalizes the convolution, Volterra compositions of first and second type and induces Schwartz's bracket.

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@article{arxiv.2307.09037,
  title  = {A Fr\'echet Lie group on distributions},
  author = {Manon Ryckebusch and Abderrahman Bouhamidi and Pierre-Louis Giscard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.09037},
  year   = {2025}
}
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