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When studying physical systems governed by differential equations, physicists often consider the derivatives to be taken in the sense of distributions. This is necessary, for example, when the inputs are discontinuous. This leads one to define generalized solutions of differential equations in terms of distributions.
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Gasquet, C., Witomski, P. (1999). Primitives of a Distribution. In: Fourier Analysis and Applications. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 30. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1598-1_30
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