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This paper continues previous attempts to find a convenient mathematical setting in which linear and nonlinear Cauchy problems have a unique global solution, that reduces to a classical solution when the latter exists.
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Colombeau, J.F., Heibig, A. Generalized solutions to Cauchy problems. Monatshefte für Mathematik 117, 33–49 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01299310
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