The distributional product of Dirac's delta in a hypercone (Q1971810)

The need to give a sense to a product of the form \(\delta^{(k)}\cdot \delta^{(m)}\), \(k,m\in \mathbb{N}\cup\{0\}\) of derivatives of the \(\delta\)-distribution encourages many mathematicians. The literature of such a problem is very rich; this paper belongs to it. Let us denote by \(P(x)= x^2_1+\cdots+ x^2_p- x^2_{p+ 1}-\cdots- x^2_{p+ q}\), \(p+ q= n\). The hypersurface \(P= 0\) is a hypercone in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). The authors give a sense to \(\delta^{(k)}(P)\cdot \delta^{(m)}(P)\) and determine conditions for \(n\), \(k\) and \(m\) under which this product equals zero.