Reconstruction of the one-dimensional thick distribution theory

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Abstract: The theory of thick distributions (both in dimension 1 and in higher dimensions) was constructed in recent years [7, 27]. However this theory of distributions with one thick point in dimension one is very different from that in higher dimensions. In this paper the author uses the language of asymptotic analysis to reconstruct the 1-dimensional thick distribution theory and to incorporate it into the framework of the higher-dimensional thick distribution theory. Some new concepts and interesting results appear in this paper from viewing singular functions in a different way.


In the theory of distributions the test functions are smooth, which promoted studies involving non-smooth functions; e.g., in the sense of finite parts and pseudo functions. The theory with regard to singular points is known as thick distribution theory, which in one dimension was developed by \textit{R.~Estrada} and \textit{S.~A. Fulling} [Int. J. Appl. Math. Stat. 10, No. SO7, 25--37 (2007; Zbl 1153.46025)] and further extended to higher dimensions by the author and \textit{R.~Estrada} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 401, No. 2, 821--835 (2013; Zbl 1281.46037)]. In Section~2, the author discusses the one and higher-dimensional thick distribution theory of test functions and the thick distribution space, and their properties such as duality, and the thick distributional derivative. Section~3 contains the main part of the present paper which is divided into four subsections, where the author reconstructs the one-dimensional thick distributions using their asymptotic expansions behaviour. This theory is more aligned with that of the higher-dimensional thick distribution theory. In view of this, the ``$0$-dimensional unit sphere, polynomials and Heaviside functions are proposed as examples. In Lemma~1, the relation between the asymptotic expansions with respect to $x$ and $r$ are discussed. Based on the asymptotic behaviour, the derivative and term-by-term derivative for thick functions are employed in Theorem~2 and Theorem~3. The thick test functions in one dimension which admit a strong asymptotic expansion are defined in Section~3.2. As an extension of new thick test functions, the one-dimensional new thick distribution space is defined, with examples, in Section~3.3. Further, in Section~3.4, algebraic and analytic operations in the thick distribution theory are studied. The solution of a problem pointed out by \textit{G. F. Paskusz}, ``Comments on `Transient analysis of energy equation of dynamical systems'\,, IEEE Trans. Educ. 43, No. 2, 242 (2000; \url{doi:10.1109/13.848080})], of multiplying Schwartz distributions within thick distribution theory, is also mentioned.











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