Positivity and positive definiteness in generalized function algebras

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2006.06.034MaRDI QIDQ864647zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Oberguggenberger, Stevan Pilipović, D. Scarpalezos

Publication date 12 February 2007

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2006.06.034

zbMATH Keywords

positive and positivity definite generalized functions special Colombeau algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized functions for nonlinear analysis (Rosinger, Colombeau, nonstandard, etc.) (46F30)

Review text

Let \(\Omega\) be an open set in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and \({\mathcal G}(\Omega)\) be the special Colombeau algebra. The authors give and analyse definitions for \(f\in{\mathcal G}(\Omega)\) to be positive or \({\mathcal D}'(\Omega)\)-weakly positive, and also for \(f\in{\mathcal G}(\mathbb{R}^n)\) to be positive definite. Positivity is defined as follows: \(f=[(f_\varepsilon)_\varepsilon]\in {\mathcal G}(\Omega)\) is said to be positive if there exists a representative \((f_\varepsilon)_\varepsilon\) of \(f\) such that for every \(a> 0\) and \(K\subset\subset\Omega\), there exists \(\varepsilon_0\in (0,1)\) such that \(\text{inf\,}f_\varepsilon(x)+ \varepsilon^a\geq 0\), \(x\in K\), \(\varepsilon< \varepsilon_0\). The authors also consider the same notions in the space of Colombeau tempered generalized functions. As an example of possible applications, they prove a Bochner-type theorem and pose the following open problem: Does there exist \(G= [(G_\varepsilon)_\varepsilon]\in{\mathcal G}_\tau(\mathbb{R})\) that is tempered weakly positive definite but so that \(F= [({\mathcal F}^{-1}(G_\varepsilon)*\phi_\varepsilon)_\varepsilon]\) is not tempered weakly positive? The paper is written concisely and is rich in new and interesting results.

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