Elementary introduction to new generalized functions /

The author's previous book Ǹew Generalized Functions and Multiplication of Distributions' (North-Holland, 1984) introduced ǹew generalized functions' in order to explain heuristic computations of Physics and to give a meaning to any finite product of distributions. The aim here is to...

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Main Author: Colombeau, Jean François, 1947-
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : North-Holland ; Sole distributor for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., ©1985.
Series:North-Holland mathematics studies ; 113.
Notas de matemática (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) ; no. 103.
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Summary:The author's previous book Ǹew Generalized Functions and Multiplication of Distributions' (North-Holland, 1984) introduced ǹew generalized functions' in order to explain heuristic computations of Physics and to give a meaning to any finite product of distributions. The aim here is to present these functions in a more direct and elementary way. In Part I, the reader is assumed to be familiar only with the concepts of open and compact subsets of R & eegr;, of C & infin; functions of several real variables and with some rudiments of integration theory. Part II defines tempered generalized functions, i.e. generalized functions which are, in some sense, increasing at infinity no faster than a polynomial (as well as all their partial derivatives). Part III shows that, in this setting, the partial differential equations have new solutions. The results obtained show that this setting is perfectly adapted to the study of nonlinear partial differential equations, and indicate some new perspectives in this field.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-281) and index.
ISBN:9780444877567
0444877568
9780080872247
0080872247