Ultrafunctions and applications

Vieri Benci; Lorenzo Luperi Baglini

doi:10.3934/dcdss.2014.7.593

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Ultrafunctions and applications

Vieri Benci^1, and
Lorenzo Luperi Baglini^2,

1.
Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Via F. Buonarroti 1/c, Pisa
2.
University of Vienna, Faculty of Mathematics, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna

Received: October 2013

Revised: December 2013

Published: August 2014

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This paper deals with a new kind of generalized functions, called ``ultrafunctions", which have been introduced recently in [5] and developed in [10] and [11]. Their peculiarity is that they are based on a Non Archimedean field, namely on a field which contains infinite and infinitesimal numbers. Ultrafunctions have been introduced to provide generalized solutions to equations which do not have any solutions, not even among the distributions. Some applications of this kind will be presented in the second part of this paper.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 26E30, 26E35, 46F30; Secondary: 35D99.

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