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Yurii Shirokov,  Algebra of one-dimensional generalized functions (1979)

“ We have introduced differentiation on the algebra . We emphasize that the rule for differentiating a product can be applied only to renormalized multiplication. Perhaps, it is the only possible way to differenticate elements of the algebra of generalized functions. Any attempts to differentiate the right-hand sides of (27) and (33) as we differentiate a products or regular funcitons may lead to expressions, for which we have no definitions.
The regularization of the differentiation rules and anti-commuting signum and delta is the price we pay to get the associative algebra.
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Yurii Shirokov,  Algebra of one-dimensional generalized functions (1979)

“ The elements of together with the differentiation operator form the algebra of local observables for a quantum theory with indefinite metric and state vectors that are also generalized functions. By going over to a smaller space, one can obtain quantum models with positive metric and with strongly singular concentrated potentials.
Introduction One of the key mathematical problems of relativistic (and, quite generally, local) field theory is the construction of a satisfactory operation of multiplication for a certain class of generalized functions (see, for example, [1] ) .
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