Heaviside functions

Here 0 is the Heaviside function. The projection operator formalism must be carried out in matrix from and in this connection it is useful to define the orthogonal set of variables, k,uk,5k > where the entropy density is sk = ek — CvTrik with Cv the specific heat. In terms of these variables the linearized hydrodynamic equations take the form... 

We first define the unit step function (also called the Heaviside function in mathematics) and its Laplace transform 1... 

The step function is also known as a Heaviside function. 

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Thus, since the derivative of the Heaviside function is the Dirac delta function, (d (x)/dx) = <5(x), taking the derivative in Equation 2.16 with respect to x, one finds, using Equation 2.6, that the hardness is given by... 

For the second derivative of the electronic density with respect to the number of electrons, the dual descriptor, one can proceed as in the case of the energy. That is, the Fukui function using the Heaviside function [25] is written as... 

To connect the equations in (B.l) through the Fourier-Laplace transform, we need to define suitable complex contours to make the transforms convergent. Specifically we identify the contours C by the lines in upper and lower complex planes defined by CU ( id — oo — id + oo), where d > 0 may be arbitrary. Using the Heaviside function, 0(f), and the Dirac delta function, 5(f), we can characterize positive and negative times (with respect to f = 0) as linked with appropriate contours C as... 

The F-curve can also be determined from the E-curve obtained by a pulse experiment according to Equation 8-3. For a plug flow reactor, the step is extremely sharp, and in the limit it would approach a Heaviside function at the mean residence time. The Heaviside unit function H(t - t0) is... 

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