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APPLIED FUNCTION ANALYSIS

Assignment Problems 6
(Distributions and Sobolev Spaces)

Date: 29th Mar 2011


Submission Date: 12th April 2011

1. Show that    on 


, where


  
    
   

   
   


2. Show that

Where  is (the distribution generated by) the function       , and  is a constant.

   
   
 
 

3. Show that the function

has a generalized derivative given by

    

4. Let  be defined on !  
 " 
 # $ by

%
' (  % ( 
 %  &
% '  %  

' % 

Show that
)

* *


(  % ( 
+%

 , %  
 %  
+ +%
 -./0/

5. Find the solution to the distributional differential equation


1  1  2 34

!  


Try 1 in the form 1  , where  is the step function and  5 6  


.
6. Given that



  
1    

7

 8


8

Determine the value of 9 for which the function 1 belongs to  : or ;: .


7. Show that the function

  
1   


 
and
<    =

are orthogonal in >  . Investigate whether they are orthogonal in *  . Find the distance
between 1 and < in >   and in *  .

8. Use the Sobolev Embedding Theorem to show that the function


 %  @  % @ 
1 %  ?
 -./0/

is continuous on !  
 " 
.

9. The function 1 is defined by



 
D

B


8

1  
 

  



C
8
B



A


Determine to which Sobolev space this function belongs to?


10. Show that

E F1G F<H  E
!

+1
< HK
E F 1< H
+I
!

for 1 5   !, < 5 * !, where F is the Laplacian.


11. Derive the Greens formula

E F 1F < H  E FL 1< H  E MF 1


!

for 1 5  L !, < 5   !.

+< + 

F 1<N H
+I +I

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