Skip to main content

calculus and analysis - Why don't products of Dirac deltas integrate correctly?



Bug introduced in 10.0.0 and fixed in 10.0.1




The integral $\int \int \ \delta(x) \delta(y) \ dx dy=1$ evaluates to 0 in Mathematica


Integrate[
DiracDelta[x]*DiracDelta[y],
{x, -Infinity, Infinity},
{y, -Infinity, Infinity}
]

returns 0 even though



Integrate[
DiracDelta[x],
{x, -Infinity, Infinity}
]

correctly returns 1. What's going on?


Edit: This concerns Version 10.0.0.0 installed on Ubuntu 14.04. The notebook contains no other commands. Clear[x,y] does not affect the outcome.




Comments