Boehmians on open sets (Q1813368)

Boehmians were first introduced by a purely algebraic construction. Applications of the method to function spaces yield various spaces of generalized functions. In those examples, the construction is based on the concept of convolution. The fact, that the convolution of a continuous function on \(R^ q\) with a function with compact support in \(R^ q\) is always a continuous function on \(R^ q\), is of basic importance for the construction. The situation complicates in the case of functions defined on an open subset of \(R^ q\): the convolution of such a function with a function with compact support is not usually defined for all points from that open set. Therefore the algebraic method cannot be used. It is proved in [the author, Jap. J. Math., New. Ser. 9, 159-179 (1983; Zbl 0524.44005)], that the space of Boehmians on \(R^ q\) can be equivalently defined as the completion of the space of continuous functions on \(R^ q\) with respect to a special type of convergence, called \(\Delta\)-convergence. The definition of Boehmians on open sets, presented in this paper, is based on that fact.