Let
- $d\in\mathbb N$
- $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb R^d$ be open
- $\mathcal D(\Omega):=C_c^\infty(\Omega)$
If $p\in \mathcal D'(\Omega)$, then $$\frac{\partial p}{\partial x_i}(\phi):=-p\left(\frac{\partial\phi}{\partial x_i}\right)\;\;\;\text{for }i\in\left\{1,\ldots,d\right\}\text{ and }\phi\in\mathcal D(\Omega)$$ and $$\nabla p(\phi):=\sum_{i=1}^d\frac{\partial p}{\partial x_i}(\phi_i)\;\;\;\text{for }\phi\in\mathcal D(\Omega)^d\;.$$
Is there some notion of the divergence of a distribution too?
In distribution theory, many notions are generalizations of what happens in space $L^1_{loc}(\Omega)$. The distributional derivative is an operator of type $D^\alpha : \mathcal{D}'(\Omega) \longrightarrow \mathcal{D}'(\Omega)$, its restriction on $L^1_{loc}(\Omega)$ is what many authors call weak derivative, in this sense, weak and distributional derivative are the same thing. That said, you just know what is weak gradient to know what is the distributional gradient. The divergence follows then by an appropriate scalar product.