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Terms vs Mollifier - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and mollifier

is that terms is while mollifier is (mathematics) an "approximation to the identity", a smooth function with special properties, used in distribution theory to create sequences of smooth functions approximating nonsmooth (generalized) functions, via convolution.

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    mollifier

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    (en noun) (wikipedia mollifier)
  • (mathematics) An "approximation to the identity", a smooth function with special properties, used in distribution theory to create sequences of smooth functions approximating nonsmooth (generalized) functions, via convolution.
  • * {{quote-journal, 2009, date=, , , Notices of the American Mathematical Society citation
    • , passage=I particularly remember how, at that time, I was using his mollifier method to study the zero density of L-functions and was stuck with something. }}