Radial and angular derivatives of distributions
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- Fred Brackx (UGent)
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- When expressing a distribution in Euclidean space in spherical coordinates, derivation with respect to the radial and angular co-ordinates is far from trivial. Exploring the possibilities of defining a radial derivative of the delta distribution 8{x) (the angular derivatives of S(x) being zero since the delta distribution is itself radial) led to the introduction of a new kind of distributions, the so-called signumdistributions, as continuous linear functionals on a space of test functions showing a singularity at the origin. In this paper we search for a definition of the radial and angular derivatives of a general standard distribution and again, as expected, we are inevitably led to consider signumdistributions. Although these signumdistributions provide an adequate framework for the actions on distributions aimed at, it turns out that the derivation with respect to the radial distance of a general (signum)distribution is still not yet unambiguous.
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- Distribution, Radial derivative, Angular derivative, Signumdistribution
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8635456
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- Brackx, Fred. “Radial and Angular Derivatives of Distributions.” Topics in Clifford Analysis : Special Volume in Honor of Wolfgang Sprössig, edited by Swanhild Bernstein, Birkhäuser, 2019, pp. 141–71, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-23854-4_7.
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- Brackx, F. (2019). Radial and angular derivatives of distributions. In S. Bernstein (Ed.), Topics in Clifford Analysis : Special Volume in Honor of Wolfgang Sprössig (pp. 141–171). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23854-4_7
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- Brackx, Fred. 2019. “Radial and Angular Derivatives of Distributions.” In Topics in Clifford Analysis : Special Volume in Honor of Wolfgang Sprössig, edited by Swanhild Bernstein, 141–71. Birkhäuser. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23854-4_7.
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- Brackx, Fred. 2019. “Radial and Angular Derivatives of Distributions.” In Topics in Clifford Analysis : Special Volume in Honor of Wolfgang Sprössig, ed by. Swanhild Bernstein, 141–171. Birkhäuser. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-23854-4_7.
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- 1.Brackx F. Radial and angular derivatives of distributions. In: Bernstein S, editor. Topics in Clifford Analysis : Special Volume in Honor of Wolfgang Sprössig. Birkhäuser; 2019. p. 141–71.
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- [1]F. Brackx, “Radial and angular derivatives of distributions,” in Topics in Clifford Analysis : Special Volume in Honor of Wolfgang Sprössig, 2019, pp. 141–171.
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abstract = {{When expressing a distribution in Euclidean space in spherical coordinates, derivation with respect to the radial and angular co-ordinates is far from trivial. Exploring the possibilities of defining a radial derivative of the delta distribution 8{x) (the angular derivatives of S(x) being zero since the delta distribution is itself radial) led to the introduction of a new kind of distributions, the so-called signumdistributions, as continuous linear functionals on a space of test functions showing a singularity at the origin. In this paper we search for a definition of the radial and angular derivatives of a general standard distribution and again, as expected, we are inevitably led to consider signumdistributions. Although these signumdistributions provide an adequate framework for the actions on distributions aimed at, it turns out that the derivation with respect to the radial distance of a general (signum)distribution is still not yet unambiguous.}},
author = {{Brackx, Fred}},
booktitle = {{Topics in Clifford Analysis : Special Volume in Honor of Wolfgang Sprössig}},
editor = {{Bernstein, Swanhild}},
isbn = {{9783030238537}},
issn = {{2297-0215}},
keywords = {{Distribution,Radial derivative,Angular derivative,Signumdistribution}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{141--171}},
publisher = {{Birkhäuser}},
title = {{Radial and angular derivatives of distributions}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23854-4_7}},
year = {{2019}},
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