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Hyperreal Delta Functions as a New General Tool for Modeling Systems with Infinitely High Densities
- Source :
- Axioms, Volume 10, Issue 4, Axioms, Vol 10, Iss 244, p 244 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021.
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Abstract
- In general, the state of a system in which a physical quantity such as mass is distributed over space can be modeled by a function that represents the density distribution. The purpose of this paper is to introduce special functions that can be applied when in the system to be modeled, where the quantity is distributed over isolated points. For that matter, the expanded real numbers are introduced as an ordered subring of the hyperreal number field that does not contain any infinitesimals, and hyperreal delta functions are defined as special functions from the real numbers to the expanded real numbers satisfying the condition that (i) the support is a singleton, and (ii) the integral over the reals is a nonzero real number. These newly defined hyperreal delta functions, and tensor products thereof, then provide a general tool, applicable for the mathematical modeling of physical systems in which infinitely high densities occur.
- Subjects :
- Pure mathematics
Algebra and Number Theory
Logic
Infinitesimal
Hyperreal number
mathematical modeling
hyperreal numbers
Dirac delta function
Field (mathematics)
Function (mathematics)
symbols.namesake
Special functions
dirac delta
symbols
QA1-939
Geometry and Topology
systems theory
Mathematical Physics
Analysis
Mathematics
Real number
Physical quantity
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20751680
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Axioms
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7dfdb3dfacb2ed35f93d01ce0c6f8d75
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms10040244