Categorical frameworks for generalized functions

DOI10.1007/S40065-015-0126-9MaRDI QIDQ903188zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Paolo Giordano, Enxin Wu

Publication date 5 January 2016

Published in Arabian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4839

zbMATH Keywords

diffeological spacesmanifoldsColombeau algebraCartesian closed categoryColombeau generalized functionsfunctionally generated spacesSchwartz distribution spacesFrölicher spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10) Generalized functions for nonlinear analysis (Rosinger, Colombeau, nonstandard, etc.) (46F30) Distributions and generalized functions on nonlinear spaces (46T30) Distributions on infinite-dimensional spaces (46F25) Spaces and manifolds of mappings (including nonlinear versions of 46Exx) (58D99)

Abstract: We tackle the problem of finding a suitable categorical framework for generalized functions used in mathematical physics for linear and non-linear PDEs. We are looking for a Cartesian closed category which contains both Schwartz distributions and Colombeau generalized functions as natural objects. We study Fr"olicher spaces, diffeological spaces and functionally generated spaces as frameworks for generalized functions. The latter are similar to Fr"olicher spaces, but starting from locally defined functionals. Functionally generated spaces strictly lie between Fr"olicher spaces and diffeological spaces, and they form a complete and cocomplete Cartesian closed category. We deeply study functionally generated spaces (and Fr"olicher spaces) as a framework for Schwartz distributions, and prove that in the category of diffeological spaces, both the special and the full Colombeau algebras are smooth differential algebras, with a smooth embedding of Schwartz distributions and smooth pointwise evaluations of Colombeau generalized functions.

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