Write a piecewise smooth Lighthill stress tensor as , where and the regular level surface is a shock wave. The distributional derivative of the Heaviside step function gives
Here repeated indices are summed, and . Keep the coefficients as smooth extensions before multiplying distributions: prematurely replacing the coefficient of by its surface trace can lose a contribution. The extra surface delta distributions and their derivatives are supported entirely on the discontinuity.

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