陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「245C, Notes 3: Distributions」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

In set theory, a function is defined as an object that evaluates every input to exactly one output . However, in various branches of mathematics, it has become convenient to generalise this classical concept of a function to a more abstract one. For instance, in operator algebras , quantum mechanics , or non-commutative geometry , one often replaces commutative algebras of (real or complex-valued) functions on some space , such as or , with a more general – and possibly non-c

Generalisations of functions are also very useful in analysis. In our study of spaces, we have already seen one such generalisation, namely the concept of a function defined up to almost everywhere equivalence. Such a function (or more precisely, an equivalence class of classical functions) cannot be evaluated at any given point , if that point has measure zero. However, it is still possible to perform algebraic operations on such functions (e.g. multiplying or adding two fun

已知结果和反例

We have also seen (via the Lebesgue-Radon-Nikodym theorem ) that locally integrable functions on, say, the real line , can be identified with locally finite absolutely continuous measures on the line, by multiplying Lebesgue measure by the function . So another way to generalise the concept of a function is to consider arbitrary locally finite Radon measures (not necessarily absolutely continuous), such as the Dirac measure . With this concept of “generalised function”, one c

There is an even larger class of generalised functions that is very useful, particularly in linear PDE, namely the space of distributions , say on a Euclidean space . In contrast to Radon measures , which can be defined by how they “pair up” against continuous, compactly supported test functions to create numbers , a distribution is defined by how it pairs up against a smooth compactly supported function to create a number . As the space of smooth compactly supported function

证明或构造的主线

If one shrinks the space of distributions slightly, to the space of tempered distributions (which is formed by enlarging dual class to the Schwartz class ), then one obtains closure under another important operation, namely the Fourier transform . This allows one to define various Fourier-analytic operations (e.g. pseudodifferential operators ) on such distributions.

Of course, at the end of the day, one is usually not all that interested in distributions in their own right, but would like to be able to use them as a tool to study more classical objects, such as smooth functions. Fortunately, one can recover facts about smooth functions from facts about the (far rougher) space of distributions in a number of ways. For instance, if one convolves a distribution with a smooth, compactly supported function, one gets back a smooth function. Th

阅读时建议盯住的点

It is this unusual and useful combination of both being able to pass from classical functions to generalised functions (e.g. by differentiation) and then back from generalised functions to classical functions (e.g. by convolution) that sets the theory of distributions apart from other competing theories of generalised functions, in particular allowing one to justify many formal calculations in PDE and Fourier analysis rigorously with relatively little additional effort. On th

In the rest of the notes 下面会 work on a fixed Euclidean space . (One can also define distributions on other domains related to , such as open subsets of , or -dimensional manifolds, but for simplicity we shall restrict attention to Euclidean spaces in these notes.)

值得单独记下的条目

• (i) Show that there exists at least one test function that is not identically zero. ( Hint : it suffices to do this for . One starting point is to use the fact that the function defined by for and otherwise is smooth, even at the origin .)
• (ii) Show that if and is absolutely integrable and compactly supported, then the convolution is also in . ( Hint: first show that is continuously differentiable with .)
• (iv) Show that is dense in (in the uniform topology), and dense in (with the topology) for all .
• (i) Show that the topology of is first countable for every compact .
• (ii) Show that the topology of is not first countable. ( Hint: given any countable sequence of open neighbourhoods of , build a new open neighbourhood that does not contain any of the previous ones, using the -compact nature of .)
• (iii) As an additional challenge, construct a set such that is an adherent point of , but is not as the limit of any sequence in .
• (i) Let be a compact set. Show that a linear map into a normed vector space is continuous if and only if there exists and such that for all .
• (ii) Let be compact sets. Show that a linear map is continuous if and only if for every there exists and a constant such that for all .

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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