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Mollifier

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who mollifies.

    "[…] the Lord Treasurer, who ever secretly feigned himself to be a Moderator and Mollifier of the Catholicks Afflictions […]"

  2. 2
    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.

    "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."

Etymology

From mollify + -er.

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