Generators for rings of compactly supported distributions

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Abstract: Let C denote a closed convex cone C in mathbbRd with apex at 0. We denote by mathcalE′(C) the set of distributions having compact support which is contained in C. Then mathcalE′(C) is a ring with the usual addition and with convolution. We give a necessary and sufficient analytic condition on hatf1,...,hatfn for f1,...,fninmathcalE′(C) to generate the ring mathcalE′(C). (Here hatcdot denotes Fourier-Laplace transformation.) This result is an application of a general result on rings of analytic functions of several variables by H"ormander. En route we answer an open question posed by Yutaka Yamamoto.


The authors study the ring \({\mathcal E}'(C)\) of distributions on \({\mathbb R}^d\) having compact support contained in a closed convex cone \(C\) with apex at 0. A general result on rings of analytic functions due to Lars Hörmander and the Paley-Wiener-Schwartz theorem permit to characterize the finite sequences \(f_1,\dots,f_n\in {\mathcal E}^\prime(C)\) that generate the ring \({\mathcal E}^\prime(C).\) The paper ends with a concrete example of two compactly supported distributions \(f_1, f_2\in {\mathcal E}^\prime({\mathbb R})\) that have no common zeros and are not a ring generator of \({\mathcal E}^\prime({\mathbb R}).\)











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