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Not every distribution is a locally integrable function

Statement refuted

Every distribution on Rn, n≥1, is represented by a locally integrable function. Under Countable Choice, δ0 is a counterexample.

Facts & Assumptions

[F1]

Under Countable Choice the regular-distribution map is injective on almost-everywhere classes on every open domain (Locally integrable functions embed in distributions, The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω)).

[F2]

Dirac is a distribution and δ0(φ)=φ(0) (Dirac delta and its derivatives).

[F3]

A test equal to one near zero exists (Test function cutoffs and euclidean localization).

[F4]

A point is Lebesgue null, as a subset of a coordinate hyperplane (A box with a degenerate side is Lebesgue null, and so is every coordinate hyperplane in Rn).

Proof

Given: Countable Choice and the witness δ0.

1.1givenF1F2F4

Suppose uf=δ0 with f∈Lloc1(Rn). On the open domain U=Rn∖{0}, all tests evaluate to zero at the origin, so F2 gives uf∣U=0. F1 applied on this entire open domain, without selecting pointwise neighborhoods, gives f=0 almost everywhere on U. By F4 the omitted singleton is null, so f=0 almost everywhere on Rn.

2.1step 1.1F1F2F3

Consequently uf=0, but F3 supplies φ with φ(0)=1, and F2 gives δ0(φ)=1. This contradiction proves that the witness is not regular and refutes the proposed universal statement. The zero function does represent the zero distribution; the failure is the nonzero point mass, not a failure of the regular-distribution construction. Dimension zero is excluded, since its singleton has mass one in the library convention. □

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