Generators for rings of compactly supported distributions (Q621798)

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 \({\mathcal E}^\prime({\mathbb R}).\)