Show f is continously differentiable and $f' =g$.

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Let T and T' be regular distributions. T=T$_{f}$ and $T'=T_{g}$ . Assume both f and g are continous. Show that f is continuously differntiable and f'=g.

I define

$\langle T_{f},\Phi \rangle = $$\int_\mathbb{R} f(x)\phi(x) dx$

$\langle T_{g},\Phi \rangle = $$\int_\mathbb{R} g(x)\phi(x) dx$

Now i use the derivation rules for Distributions and get from $T'_{f}(\Phi)$

$\langle T'_{f},\Phi \rangle =-$$\int_\mathbb{R} f(x)\phi'(x) dx=-[f(x)\phi(x)]^{a}_{-a} +$$\int_\mathbb{R} f'(x)\phi(x) dx$

And $-[f(x)\phi(x)]^{a}_{-a} = 0 $ for $supp(\phi) \subset [-a,a]$

Hence

$ $$\int_\mathbb{R} f'(x)\phi(x) dx =$$\int_\mathbb{R} g(x)\phi(x) dx$

Then

$ $$\int_\mathbb{R} (f'(x)-g(x))\phi(x) dx =0$ with Fundamental lemma of calculus of variations

implies that $f'(x)-g(x)=0$

so $f'(x)=g(x)$.

This should be correct. My Question is how i get that f is continuously differentiable so i can use the Lemma? Does this follow immediately from the derivation rules for distributions??

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First of all, you can't do integration by parts when $f$ is not differentiable! now we have

$$\langle T_{g},\phi' \rangle=\langle T',\phi \rangle =-\langle T,\phi' \rangle =-\langle T_{f},\phi' \rangle$$ so

$$\int_\mathbb{R} g(x)\phi(x) dx=-\int_\mathbb{R} f(x)\phi'(x) dx$$ then by substitution $$\int_\mathbb{R} g(x)\phi(x) dx=-\int_\mathbb{R} \lim_{h \rightarrow 0}f(x) \dfrac{\phi(x+h)-\phi(x)}{h} dx=\int_\mathbb{R} \lim_{h \rightarrow 0}\phi(x) \dfrac{f(x-h)-f(x)}{-h} dx $$

from this we have

$$\lim_{h \rightarrow 0} \dfrac{f(x-h)-f(x)}{-h}=g(x) \quad a.e$$ finely by the continuity of $g$ we deduce that $f$ is continuously differentiable and $f'=g$