Questions tagged [schwartz-distributions]
A distribution is a continuous linear functional on the space $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}_c$ of smooth (indefinitely differentiable) functions with compact support. Though they appeared in formal computations in the physics and engineering literature in the late $19^{th}$ century, their formal setting was brought up by the work of S. Sobolev and L. Schwartz in the middle of the $20^{th}$ century.
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An equivalent characterization of $\mathcal{S}'$ as distributions on the sphere
I originally asked this question on Mathstack Exchange, but I think this question is more suitable for here.
Please let me know if that is not the case so that I can delete or edit this post.
Let $\...
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Heine-Borel property for (probability) measures on $\mathcal{S}'$?
For Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$, it is a well-known fact that the Schwartz space $\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ is a Montel space. Moreover, the space of tempered distributions $\mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R}...
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Can you recover the manifold diffeology from the diffeology of distributions?
Is it true that the manifold diffeology is the subspace diffeology heredited from the diffeology of distributions?
I wanna know the same thing for the tangent bundle.
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Density of Schwartz distributions in the space of distribution
Let $\mathscr S(\mathbf R^3)$ and $\mathscr D(\mathbf R^3 )$ be the space of Schwartz function and test function respectively, $\mathscr S'(\mathbf R^3)$ and $\mathscr D'(\mathbf R^3)$ be their duals....
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Is $1/F$ Schwartz if $F$ is "reverse Schwartz"?
Let's call a positive function $F:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ "reverse Schwartz" if $F$ is smooth and
$$\forall n \forall k,\quad\lim_{x\to\infty}\frac{|x|^n}{|\partial_x^k F(x)|}=0\quad .$$
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Is there a classification of 2D projective convolution kernels?
Is there any classification of all distributions on $\mathbb{R}^2$ such that they are equal to the convolution with themselves? i.e. given a distribution $\gamma$ under which conditions
$$ \gamma\star\...
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Why $\int_{S^{n-1}} |\hat{f}(w)|^2d\sigma(w) < \infty$?
Let $f\in L^p(\Bbb R^n)$ and $S^{n-1}$ be the Unit sphere.
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$\int_{S^{n-1}} |\hat{f}(w)|^2d\sigma(w)<\infty$ when $1<p<2$.
$\hat{f}$ is the Fourier transform fora function f.
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Intermediate spaces of test functions between $\mathcal{S}$ and $\mathcal{D}$?
On $\mathbb{R}^n$, let $\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ be the Schwartz space and $\mathcal{D}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ be the space of smooth, compactly supported functions.
According to p.145 of the book by Reed &...
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Extracting each field operator as Wightman fields from a set of time-ordered products satisfying Eckmann-Epstein axioms
The paper by Eckmann-Epstein proves that Schwinger functions at "coinciding points" uniquely defines "time-ordered products".
In physics, these "time-ordered products" ...
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Functions with derivatives growing at rate $r>0$
Fix a non-empty closed subset $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}$.
Let $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ be smooth and such that $\sup_{x\in \Omega}\,|\partial^k f(x)|\lesssim k^r$ for some $r\ge 0$ for all $k\in \...
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Tempered distributions at non-coinciding points and density of Schwartz functions
In the previous question, I find that situation is much less favorable than expected…. So I add more details to focus on the specific case I have in mind.
Let us consider the Schwartz space $\mathcal{...
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$C^\infty$-coring
We know that there the so called smooth algebras also known as $C^\infty$-rings. They can play an important role in modern treatment of differential geometry. Is there a coring analogue?
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Action of Hopf algebra of identity supported distributions on a Lie group
The Hopf algebra
of identity supported distributions on a lie group is cocommutative. It is well known that it is a group object in the category of cocommutative coalgebras. Is there a canonical ...
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Does this distribution exist?
Assume there is a distribution in two variables $\mathcal{W}\in\mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R}^2)$ with Fourier transform $\hat{\mathcal{W}}(\alpha,\beta)\equiv \int_{-\infty}^\infty e^{i(\alpha x+\beta y)} \...
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A question about the eigenfunction method and the notion of solution - distributional solution
I have a question about how a passage was made in the calculation of passage (2.5) in the calculation below. To introduce context, the author in the paper (full work) is trying to demonstrate that ...
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