Proving Property of Dirac Delta

38 Views Asked by At

I need to prove the idendity of $$\delta(g(x)) = \Sigma \frac{\delta(x-x_i)} {|g'(x_i)|}$$ and we know that $$g(x_i) = 0$$

So I think we can write,

$$g(x) = (x - x_1)(x-x_2)...(x-x_i)$$

so we are actually trying to find,

$$\delta((x - x_1)(x-x_2)...(x-x_i))$$

Now I am not sure what to do. I tried to write $g(x)$ in terms of $g'(x)$ to catch some sort of similarity but it did not work out well.

In another approach, I tried to make a taylor expansion around $x_i$ which gives something like

$$g(x = x_i) = g(x_i) + (x - x_i)g'(x_i) + ...$$

(In here I ignored the higer terms with no reason actually)

Hence around $x_i$, $\delta(g(x)) = \frac{\delta(x-x_i)} {|g'(x_i)|}$ (by using $\delta(g'(x_i) (x-x_i)) = \frac{\delta(x-x_i)} {|g'(x_i)|}$)

since we have $i$ points,

$$\delta(g(x)) = \Sigma \frac{\delta(x-x_i)} {|g'(x_i)|}$$

Is this looks stupid ?