On the endomorphisms of some sheaves of functions

Abstract

Given a $C^\infty$ real manifold $X$ and $\mathcal{C}^m_X$ its sheaf of $m$-times differentiable real-valued functions, we prove that the sheaf $\mathcal{D}^{m, r}_X$ of differential operators of order $\leq m$ with coefficient functions of class $C^r$ can be obtained in terms of the sheaf $\mathcal{H}om_{\mathbb{R}_X}(\mathcal{C}^m_X, \mathcal{C}^r_X)$ of morphisms of $\mathcal{C}^m_X$ into $\mathcal{C}^r_X$. The superscripts $m$ and $r$ are integers.