Nonlinear generalized functions: their origin, some developments and recent advances

zbMATH Open1305.46034arXiv1401.4755MaRDI QIDQ402750FDOQ402750

Authors: J.-F. Colombeau 

Publication date: 28 August 2014

Published in: São Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We expose some simple facts at the interplay between mathematics and the real world, putting in evidence mathematical objects " nonlinear generalized functions" that are needed to model the real world, which appear to have been generally neglected up to now by mathematicians. Then we describe how a "nonlinear theory of generalized functions" was obtained inside the Leopoldo Nachbin group of infinite dimensional holomorphy between 1980 and 1985. This new theory permits to multiply arbitrary distributions and contains the above mathematical objects, which shows that the features of this theory are natural and unavoidable for a mathematical description of the real world. Finally we present direct applications of the theory such as existence-uniqueness for systems of PDEs without classical solutions and calculations of shock waves for systems in non-divergence form done between 1985 and 1995, for which we give three examples of different nature: elasticity, cosmology, multifluid flows.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4755

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zbMATH Keywords

shock wavenonlinear theory of generalized functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General applied mathematics (00A69) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Generalized functions for nonlinear analysis (Rosinger, Colombeau, nonstandard, etc.) (46F30)

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