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On well-posedness of the linear Cauchy problem with the distributional right-hand side and discontinuous coefficients

Functional Analysis 2007-10-16 v3 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We prove the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the linear differential system of the form xA(t)x=fx^{\prime}-A(t)x=f, where ff is a distribution and AA possesses at most first-kind discontinuities together with all its derivatives defined almost everywhere. The left-hand side of this system contains the product of a distribution and, in general, a discontinuous function, which is undefined in the classical space of the distributions with the smooth test functions D\mathcal D', so the Cauchy problem has no solution in D\mathcal D'. In what follows, we cosider this system in the space of distributions with the discontinuous test functions, whose elements admit continuous and associative multiplication by functions possessing at most first-kind discontinuities (together with all their derivatives defined almost everywhere), and show that there exists the unique solution of the Cauchy problem which depends continuously on ff.

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@article{arxiv.0709.1509,
  title  = {On well-posedness of the linear Cauchy problem with the distributional right-hand side and discontinuous coefficients},
  author = {Damir Kinzebulatov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1509},
  year   = {2007}
}