Isaac Scientific Publishing

Advances in Analysis

Products of Harmonic Polynomials and Delta Functions

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DOI: 10.22606/aan.2018.31003

Author(s)

  • Ricardo Estrada*
    Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States

Abstract

Keywords

Dirac delta function, harmonic polynomials, products of distributions.

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