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Fundamental Solutions

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MATH-502: Distribution and interpolation spaces

The goal of this course is to give an introduction to the theory of distributions and cover the fundamental results of Sobolev spaces including fractional spaces that appear in the interpolation theory. Those notions are central to the study of partial dif ...

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This lecture covers the concept of fundamental solutions in the context of differential operators, focusing on the relationship between different operators and their access. The instructor explains the process of finding solutions for various equations and provides examples to illustrate the theory.

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