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mollifier

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From mollify + -er.

noun mollifiers

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

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@misc{mollifier_2026,
  title = {mollifier},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mollifier},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}