nLab Lars Hörmander

Lars Hörmander was a Swedish analyst and Fields medalist. His work in harmonic analysis, especially microlocal analysis and the analysis of linear PDEs was a very central contribution to this theory in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Writings

Hörmander wrote several books including his magnus treatise

• The analysis of linear partial differential operators, in 4 vols.: I. Distribution theory and Fourier analysis, II. Differential operators with constant coefficients, III. Pseudo-differential operators, IV. Fourier integral operators.

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• distribution, compactly supported distribution

• support of a distribution

• wave front set, propagation of singularities theorem

• Hörmander's criterion

• product of distributions

• extension of distributions

• pullback of distributions

• tensor product of distributions

• Hörmander's condition

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