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Continuation of Direct Products of Distributions

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v1 math.MP

Abstract

If, in some problems, one has to deal with the ``product'' of distributions fi\rm f_i (also called generalized functions) Tˉ=Πi=1mfi\rm\bar T = \Pi^m_{i=1} f_i, this product has a priori no definite meaning as a functional (Tˉ,ϕ)(\rm \bar T, \phi) for ϕS\rm\phi \in S. But if xκ+1Πi=1mfi\rm x^{\kappa +1} \Pi^m_{i=1} f_i exists, whatever the associativity is between some powers ri\rm r_i of x\rm x (riN,iriκ+1,ri0\rm r_i \in \Bbb N, \sum_i r_i\leq \kappa +1, r_i \geq 0) and the various fi\rm f_i, then a continuation of the linear functional Tˉ\rm \bar T from M\rm M onto S(N)\rm S^{(N)} for some N\rm N is shown to exist in such a way that xκ+1Tˉ\rm x^{\kappa +1} \bar T is defined unambiguously, and (Tˉ,ϕ),ϕS\rm (\bar T, \phi), \phi \in S, significant, though not unique.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0001025,
  title  = {Continuation of Direct Products of Distributions},
  author = {A. Petermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0001025},
  year   = {2007}
}

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