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Record Nr.

UNISA996466586603316

Autore

Colombeau Jean François <1947->

Titolo

Multiplication of distributions : a tool in mathematics, numerical engineering, and theoretical physics / / Jean François Colombeau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1992]

©1992

ISBN

3-540-47510-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 1992.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 186 p.)

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics (Springer-Verlag) ; ; 1532

Disciplina

515.782

Soggetti

Theory of distributions (Functional analysis)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

to generalized functions and distributions -- Multiplications of distributions in classical physics -- Elementary introduction -- Jump formulas for systems in non-conservative form. New numerical methods -- The case of several constitutive equations -- Linear wave propagation in a medium with piecewise C? characteristics -- The canonical Hamiltonian formalism of interacting quantum fields -- The abstract theory of generalized functions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents recent and very elementary developments of a theory of multiplication of distributions in the field of explicit and numerical solutions of systems of PDEs of physics (nonlinear elasticity, elastoplasticity, hydrodynamics, multifluid flows, acoustics). The prerequisites are kept to introductory calculus level so that the book remains accessible at the same time to pure mathematicians (as a smooth and somewhat heuristic introduction to this theory) and to applied mathematicians, numerical engineers and theoretical physicists (as a tool to treat problems involving products of distributions).