A Fréchet-Lie group on distributions

Manon Ryckebusch

Published 2023-07-18Version 1

We show that the following operation, $(f \star g)(x,y)= \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} f (x,t) g(t,y) dt$, is well defined on the weak closure of the space of functions that are smooth over a compact of $\mathbb{R}^2$. We establish that a subset of this weak closure has the structure of a Fr\'echet space $\mathcal{D}$ on distributions. Invertible elements of $\mathcal{D}$ form a dense subset of it and a Fr{\'e}chet-Lie group for the operation $\star$. This product generalizes the convolution, Volterra compositions of first and second type and Schwartz's bracket.