The derivative, in the sense of distributions

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Can you help please to solve this kind of tasks? enter image description here u(x) = (3x-1)

where p2(x) is given by 4 options

I tried to find and visited other topics and don't understand what I should do and what is delta(-1) and 1 in answers. I want to know how I can solve this kind of tasks.

I noticed that in which kind of samples I can find only derivate of the function to dx, in which case it will be "3" so I think it is connected with "3" so derivative of the function which equal to 3+p2(x) but the left part where sigmas I don't get it

Thank you very much I think I understood it, but to make sure I want to ask you, does the option b) is correct?

so δ(-1) = -4δ

And δ(1) = 2δ

So I got this -4δ(-1) + 2δ(1) + 3p2(x)

Did I found δ correctly?

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If we assume that $p_2(x)$ is defined as

$$p_2(x)=\begin{cases} 1&,-1<x<1\\\\0&,\text{elsewhere} \end{cases}$$

then for $u(x)=3x-1$, we have in distribution

$$\begin{align} (u(x)p_2(x))&=u'(x)p_2(x)+u(x)p_2'(x)\\\\ &=3p_2(x)+(3x-1)p_2'(x) \end{align}$$

where $p_2'$ is the distributional derivative of $p_2$. Next, we shall analyze the distribution $p_2'$.


Let $\phi \in C_C^\infty$. Using the definition of the distributional derivative, we assert that

$$\begin{align} \langle p_2',\phi \rangle&=-\langle p_2,\phi' \rangle\\\\ &=-\int_{-1}^1 \phi'(x)\,dx\\\\ &=\phi(-1)-\phi(1) \end{align}$$

Hence, $p2'=\delta_{-1}-\delta_{1}$.


Putting it all together, we have in distribution

$$(up_2)'=(u(-1)\delta_{-1}-u(1)\delta_{1})u+3p_2$$

which can be written colloquially

$$\frac{d}{dx}(u(x)p_2(x))=-2\delta(x-1)-4\delta(x+1)+3p_2$$