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We offer an axiomatic definition of a differential algebra of generalized functions over an algebraically closed non-Archimedean field. This algebra is of {\em Colombeau type} in the sense that it contains a copy of the space of Schwartz…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-14 Todor D. Todorov

Normalising flows are tractable probabilistic models that leverage the power of deep learning to describe a wide parametric family of distributions, all while remaining trainable using maximum likelihood. We discuss how these methods can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Simon Alexanderson , Gustav Eje Henter

A scheme within density functional theory is proposed that provides a practical way to generalize to unrestricted geometries the method applied with some success to layered geometries [H. Rydberg, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 126402…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Dion , H. Rydberg , E. Schroder , D. C. Langreth , B. I. Lundqvist

Generalized Functions play a central role in the understanding of differential equations containing singularities and nonlinearities. Introducing infinitesimals and infinities to deal with these obstructions leads to controversies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Juriaans , S. O. , Queiroz , P. C

In this paper, we establish a suitable version of the Hahn-Banach theorem within the framework of Colombeau spaces, a class of spaces used to model generalized functions. Our approach addresses the case where maps are defined…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Djamel eddine Kebiche , Paolo Giordano

We construct a diffeomorphism invariant (Colombeau-type) differential algebra canonically containing the space of distributions in the sense of L. Schwartz. Employing differential calculus in infinite dimensional (convenient) vector spaces,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eva Farkas , Michael Grosser , Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer

The coordinate invariant theory of generalised functions of Colombeau and Meril is reviewed and extended to enable the construction of multi-index generalised tensor functions whose transformation laws coincide with their counterparts in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Vickers , J. P. Wilson

A further significant extension is presented of the infinitely large class of differential algebras of generalized functions which are the basic structures in the nonlinear algebraic theory listed under 46F30 in the AMS Mathematical Subject…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2010-06-29 Elemer E Rosinger

The paper addresses linear hyperbolic systems in one space dimension with random field coefficients. In many applications, a low degree of regularity of the paths of the coefficients is required, which is not covered by classical stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Jelena Karakašević , Michael Oberguggenberger , Martin Schwarz

In this paper we introduce Hausdorff locally convex algebra topologies on subalgebras of the whole algebra of nonlinear generalized functions. These topologies are strong duals of Fr\'echet-Schwartz space topologies and even strong duals of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 J. Aragona , J. F. Colombeau , S. O. Juriaans

Recently the space-time foam differential algebras of generalized functions with dense singularities were introduced, motivated by the so called space-time foam structures in General Relativity with dense singularities, and by Quantum…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Elemer E Rosinger

The statistical tools needed to obtain a mass function from realistic collapse time estimates are presented. Collapse dynamics has been dealt with in paper I of this series by means of the powerful Lagrangian perturbation theory and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Pierluigi Monaco

Model-based clustering imposes a finite mixture modelling structure on data for clustering. Finite mixture models assume that the population is a convex combination of a finite number of densities, the distribution within each population is…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-09 Cristina Tortora , Paul D. McNicholas , Ryan P. Browne

The Colombeau algebra of generalized functions allows to unrestrictedly carry out products of distributions. We analyze this operation from a microlocal point of view, deriving a general inclusion relation for wave front sets of products in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Guenther Hoermann , Michael Kunzinger

We investigate the variational principle for the gravitational field in the presence of thin shells of completely unconstrained signature (generic shells). Such variational formulations have been given before for shells of timelike and null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-08 Bence Racskó

The axiomatic formulation of quantum field theory (QFT) of the 1950's in terms of fields defined as operator valued Schwartz distributions is re-examined in the light of subsequent developments. These include, on the physical side, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Grosse , M. Oberguggenberger , I. T. Todorov

We introduce a new notion of "regularity structure" that provides an algebraic framework allowing to describe functions and / or distributions via a kind of "jet" or local Taylor expansion around each point. The main novel idea is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Martin Hairer

A proof that minimum uncertainty states of the simplest periodic quantum system exist in a state space that is represented by a Colombeau algebra of generalised functions but not in Hilbert space or in the space of Schwartz distributions is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-16 Ian G Fuss , Alexei Filinkov

We show that generalized spherical harmonics are well suited for representing the space and orientation molecular density in the resolution of the molecular density functional theory. We consider the common system made of a rigid solute of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Lu Ding , Maximilien Levesque , Daniel Borgis , Luc Belloni

In this study, recently introduced generalized distribution functions are summarized and by using one of these distribution functions, namely generalized Planck distribution, an alternative approach to the generalized Planck law for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Ugur Tirnakli , Fevzi Buyukkilic , Dogan Demirhan