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Any compact supported distribution can be represented as finite sum of partial derivatives of functions.
This is a theorem in Laurent Schwartz' classic monograph Theorie des Distributions, Thm. XXVI, Chap. III, Sec. 7.
http://people.oregonstate.edu/~peterseb/mth627/docs/627w2004_compact_support.pdf