Rapidly converging approximations and regularity theory (Q1950337)

From the author's abstract and introduction: Regularization of nonsmooth structures such as distributions and discontinuous metrics by smooth approximates has been an important ingredient of many problems in mathematics and physics. The choice of regularizing processes is often dictated by their interaction with different operators involved and their symmetries. In numerical processes one desires that the regularizations converge optimally. In this paper, the author considers regularizing approximations that are in a sense optimal in view of L. Schwartz's theorem that states the impossibility of constructing an associative product on distributions consistent with continuous functions, which are called rapidly converging approximations. By considering distributions on a closed compact manifold as maps on smoothing operators, spaces of maps are considered as generalized functions. For any collection of regularizing processes the author produces an algebra of generalized functions and a diffeomorphism equivariant embedding of distributions into this algebra. Moreover, the author provides examples invariant under certain group actions. Finally, the regularity for such generalized functions is provided in terms of a certain tameness of maps between graded Fréchet spaces.