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To define weak derivatives in Chap. 10, we measured the values of a solution using test functions. Taking this idea one step further leads to a generalization of the concept of a function, called a distribution.
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Borthwick, D. (2016). Distributions. In: Introduction to Partial Differential Equations. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48936-0_12
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